Psychoanalytic Previous Year UGC-NET English

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🧠 More practice: Freud & Jung MCQs, Lacan & Bloom MCQs in the topic-wise 1000+ Literary Theory MCQs, solved with explanations.

UGC-NET Literature Quiz – Psychoanalysis & Continental Philosophy

1. Which of these is related exclusively with Jacques Lacan?

[A] Real
[B] Id
[C] Symbolic
[D] Ego
[E] Imaginary

1)A and B only
2)B and D only
3)C and E only
4)A, C and E only

2. Given below are two statements: one is labeled as assertion A and the other is labeled as reason R:

Assertion (A): Jacques Lacan was radically critical of the existing psychoanalytical theory.

Reason (R): Lacan was expelled from the International Psychoanalytical Association in 1959.

1)Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
2)Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A)
3)(A) is true but (R) is false
4)(A) is false but (R) is true

3. Which of the following are correctly matched?

A) John Keble – On the Healing Power of Poetry
B) Carl G. Jung – Writing and Difference
C) Jacques Derrida – Modern Man in Search of a Soul
D) Harold Bloom – The Anxiety of Influence
E) Kate Millett – Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction

1)B and C only
2)A and D only
3)A and E only
4)B and D only

4. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s “Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia” fuses two theoretical paradigms. They are:

A) Marxism
B) Poststructuralism
C) Psychoanalysis
D) Feminism

1)A and C only
2)A and B only
3)A and D only
4)B and C only

5. Match List I with List II:

List I (Concepts)

A) Aporia

B) Scapes

C) Interpellation

D) Mirror Stage

List II (Theoretical Framework)

I. Marxism

II. Psychoanalysis

III. Deconstruction

IV. Globalisation

1)(A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)
2)(A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)
3)(A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
4)(A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)

6. “The Name of the Father” is a term made famous by:

1)Hélène Cixous
2)Jacques Lacan
3)Carl Jung
4)Northrop Frye

7. Who is the writer of “The Flies”, an adaptation of the Electra myth?

1)Jean-Paul Sartre
2)Edward Bond
3)Albert Camus
4)T.S. Eliot

8. According to Sigmund Freud, civilisation is to some extent the cumulative product of our psychology. Choose the correct option(s):

(A) The purpose of human life is the pursuit of happiness.
(B) Man is wholly good.
(C) Abolition of private property will remove ill-will and hostility among men.
(D) Creative art reflects the purpose of human life.
(E) Civilisation is analogous with the human psyche.