Beginning Theory Peter Barry (Psychoanalysis)

Psychoanalytic criticism is a form of literary criticism that uses some of the techniques of psychoanalysis in the interpretation of literature

• True

• False

Sigmund Freud lived between

• 1800-1876

• 1923-1987

• 1856-1939

The central concept that Freud's work is based on is

• Sleep

• The unconscious

• Greed

• Grey matter

Despite being beyond the conscious part of our brains, the unconscious plays an important role in motivating our actions and behaviour.

• True

• False

"Forgetting or ignoring unresolved conflicts, unadmitted desires or trauma is

• sublimation

• repression

• transferrence

• projection

The Freudian three-part self consists of

• the ego, superego and dream

• the ego, superego and id

• the ego, superego and guilt

The male infant's unconscious desire to eliminate the father as a competitor for the mother's love is called

• the Electra complex

• the butterfly effect

• the Stockholm syndrome

• the Oedipus complex

In Freudian theory, the two primary drives are the

• drive to make money and fame

• eros and thanatos (life drive and death drive)