1000+ Literary Theory MCQs – Part 10: Psychoanalysis I: Freud & Jung

1. Many of Sigmund Freud’s ideas concern aspects of ________.

1. Humanity
2. Death
3. Conservation
4. Sexuality

2. ________ is the notion that sexuality begins not at puberty, with physical maturing, but in infancy, especially through the infant’s relationship with the mother.

1. Pansexuality
2. Omnisexuality
3. Infantile sexuality
4. Polysexuality

3. Sigmund Freud connects infantile sexuality to the ________, in which the male infant conceives the desire to eliminate the father and become the sexual partner of the mother.

1. Oedipus complex
2. Hamlet complex
3. Othello complex
4. Aphrodite complex

4. Distrust of Freud has grown in recent years, partly as a result of his mainly negative views on ________.

1. Men
2. Americans
3. Children
4. Women

5. To whom did Sigmund Freud link the situation of Hamlet in the play?

1. Prometheus
2. Zeus
3. Shakespeare
4. God

6. Sigmund Freud believed that a ________ was an escape-hatch or safety-valve through which repressed desires, fears or memories seek an outlet into the conscious mind.

1. Memoir
2. Fetish
3. Poem
4. Dream

7. Which of the following names is most closely associated with psychoanalysis?

1. James Joyce
2. Jacques Derrida
3. Sigmund Freud
4. Karl Marx

8. From the list below, select the wrong statement about the term ‘parapraxes’.

1. It was first introduced in the book Studies on Hysteria.
2. It can often manifest itself as errors in pronunciation.
3. It can often manifest itself as the substitution of a wrong word for a right one.
4. It is commonly known as Freudian slips.

9. What is the Freudian technique called in which one is encouraged to say unhesitatingly all that comes to mind without any conscious control?

1. stream of consciousness
2. free association
3. free speech
4. Freudian slips

10. Select the incorrect statement with regard to dreams as understood by Freud.

1. The mechanism of censorship through which the latent content is repressed from entering our conscious mind relaxes completely during our dreams.
2. The latent content is muddied and distorted by the process of dream-work.
3. The unconscious latent content, constituted by repressed libidinal desires and fears, gets revealed in our dreams.
4. The mechanism of censorship that represses the latent content can be regulated through concentration.

11. Freud’s 1907 work titled Delusion and Dream in Jensen’s Gradiva is ________. Which of the following options should be used to fill in the blank?

1. an opposition to Lacanian methods of psychoanalysis as explored in Jensen’s Gradiva
2. a criticism of Wilhelm Jensen’s essay on psychoanalysis
3. an analysis of a novel by Wilhelm Jensen from a psychoanalytic perspective
4. a case study of his patients based on the psychoanalytic postulations of Wilhelm Jensen

12. Which of the following statements is true about the essay ‘Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming’?

1. It was written by Sigmund Freud in response to an essay by C. G. Jung.
2. It deals with the relationship between child’s play, phantasy and day-dreaming.
3. It was written by C. G. Jung in response to an essay by Sigmund Freud.
4. It deals with the distinction between fictional and non-fictional creative writing.

13. ‘Phantasies’, as defined by Freud, do not play a crucial role in which of the following?

1. dreams
2. day-dreams
3. literary creativity
4. spatial orientation

14. Which of the following is an essentially Freudian concept?

1. Archetype
2. The Uncanny
3. The Absurd
4. The Imaginary

15. Freud held that which of these was essential to ego formation?

1. Melancholy
2. Jealousy
3. Sexuality
4. Elation

16. “The artist is once more in rudiments an introvert, not far removed from neurosis.” Who wrote these lines?

1. Kristeva
2. Jung
3. Freud
4. Lacan

17. The Freudian term for the channelling of energy into beneficial things is:

1. Eros
2. Thanatos
3. Libido
4. Sublimation

18. The concept of “screen memory” was posited by:

1. Sigmund Freud
2. Ernst Fleischl
3. Ernest Jones
4. Ernst von Brücke

19. Sigmund Freud introduced the concept of the Oedipus complex in his work:

1. The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis
2. The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
3. Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
4. The Interpretation of Dreams

20. Which of these statements describes the notion of displacement as explained by Freud?

1. The omission of parts of the unconscious dreams
2. The substitution of an unconscious object of desire by an acceptable one
3. The transference of dreams from one individual to another
4. The disjuncture between inner and outer conscience

21. The path-breaking book of Freud is titled:

1. Psychology of the Unconscious
2. The Political Unconscious
3. The Interpretation of Dreams
4. On Narcissism

22. According to Freud, the Ego

1. disappears when the Super Ego develops
2. is the site of instinctive drives
3. represents the moral sense
4. coordinates between the Id and the Super Ego

23. Freud’s argument that our mundane forgetfulness and everyday errors in speech have their roots in the drama playing out in our unconscious mind is published in:

1. The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
2. “Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming”
3. The Interpretation of Dreams
4. Studies on Hysteria

24. Freud’s 1907 work titled “Delusion and Dream in Jensen’s Gradiva” is based upon:

1. A case study
2. A novel
3. A letter written by his patient
4. None of the above

25. What was the first revolutionary psychiatric practice that Freud instituted?

1. Removing the mentally ill from society
2. Involving patients in their own therapy
3. Using stronger anti-psychotic medication
4. Accepting that madness is part of everyday life

26. What does the first essay in Freud’s collection The Uncanny discuss?

1. Childhood behaviours
2. Childhood disorders
3. Childhood memories
4. Childhood illnesses

27. What is the basis of Freud’s essay “Creative Writing and Daydreaming”?

1. To understand how writing and dreaming manifested
2. To better understand the genesis of the creative process
3. To have the opportunity to write creatively
4. To daydream

28. At what age does the creative process especially begin to unfold in a person, according to Freud?

1. At birth
2. As a teenager
3. As a child
4. As an adult

29. What is the difference between night dreams and daydreams, according to Freud?

1. Daydreams are more acceptable than night dreams
2. Night dreams are superior to daydreams
3. Daydreams are irrelevant
4. Night dreams are more acceptable than daydreams

30. How does Freud end “Creative Writing and Daydreaming”?

1. Honestly
2. Emphatically
3. Angrily
4. Abruptly

31. What is a central theme in all of Freud’s work?

1. The ego and the id
2. Suppressed desires
3. Dreams
4. The conflict and relationships of the family

32. Which literary text does Freud mention in association with female and male familial fantasies?

1. Moby-Dick
2. Romeo and Juliet
3. Oedipus Rex
4. The Bible

33. Who was exiled from his family as a child?

1. Oedipus
2. Thebes
3. Oedipus’s mother
4. Sophocles

34. How does the child view his parents, according to Freud?

1. Like God
2. As the greatest people
3. As the worst people
4. As perfect

35. How do children tend to think of their mother, according to Freud?

1. That she is the most fair
2. That she is evil
3. That she is the sweetest
4. That she is the most beautiful and nicest

36. How do children tend to think of the father, according to Freud?

1. That he is a liar
2. That he is the strongest of men
3. That he is handsome
4. That he is a warrior

37. What do children ultimately desire when they desire to become adults?

1. Full adult sexuality
2. Power
3. Complete understanding
4. Full control

38. What do some men believe about women lacking a penis?

1. Women want male genitals
2. They are superior to women
3. They were castrated
4. Women are superior to them

39. What do female genitals represent to many men, according to Freud?

1. The fear of lack of control
2. The fear of the unknown
3. The fear of loss of power
4. The fear of castration

40. What did Sigmund Freud believe about the unconscious?

1. It contains secret instincts and desires that are repressed.
2. It is the only significant aspect of the human psyche.
3. It can never be accessed.
4. All of the above answers are correct.

41. In a Freudian approach to literature, concave images are usually seen as ____.

1. male symbols
2. phallic symbols
3. female symbols
4. evidence of an Oedipus complex

42. The primordial images and patterns which create the basic grooves for human behaviour, motivation for action and development of personality are defined by Jung as ________.

1. unconscious
2. archetypes
3. animal soul
4. collective unconscious

43. Who authored the text Psychology of the Unconscious?

1. Carl Gustav Jung
2. Sigmund Freud
3. Jacques Lacan
4. Alfred Adler

44. Memories, Dreams, Reflections is the autobiography of:

1. Jacques Lacan
2. Sigmund Freud
3. Carl Jung
4. Alfred Adler

45. Carl Gustav Jung shared his name with whom?

1. A former German Emperor
2. His father
3. His great-grandfather
4. His grandfather

46. Where does Jung say his psychology originates?

1. In his unconscious mind
2. In his ancestors’ experience
3. In his racial identity
4. In the history of his land

47. Jung claims that the unconscious is the source of what?

1. Desires
2. Conscious activity and behaviour
3. Fantasies and daydreams
4. Lusts

48. How was Jung introduced to Nietzsche?

1. He was given a book of Nietzsche’s work.
2. He heard about him before he read his work.
3. He met him in the library.
4. He took a class with him.

49. How did Jung encounter Freud?

1. Freud approached Jung’s published work.
2. Jung worked in a clinic with Freud.
3. Jung approached Freud’s published work.
4. They were introduced through colleagues.

50. Given below are four statements, two of which are false. Choose the correct option.

1. I and II are false
2. II and III are false
3. III and IV are false
4. I and IV are false

51. Which term best fits the following definition: “a form of literary criticism which uses some of the techniques of psychoanalysis in the interpretation of literature”?

1. Psychoanalytic criticism
2. Practical criticism
3. Applied criticism
4. Impressionistic criticism

52. The root word for ‘hysteria’ means ________.

1. madness
2. possession
3. obsession
4. womb