Take this Freud Quiz! Tough Trivia | Philosophers & Psychologists

Answer: psychoanalytic therapy

Freudian psychoanalysis refers to a specific type of treatment in which the "analysand" (patient being analyzed) verbalizes thoughts, including free associations, fantasies, and dreams, from which the analyst formulates the unconscious conflicts causing the patient's symptoms and character problems, and interprets them for the patient to create insight for resolution of the problems.

Answer: Príbor, Moravia, Austrian Empire

Sigmund Freud was actually born in Príbor (German: Freiberg in Mähren), Moravia, Austrian Empire, which is now located in the Czech Republic, but he studied in Vienna.

Answer: cocaine

If anyone has read Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' this explains his long tangential statements.

Answer: id, ego and superego

According to Freud the Id is the instinctual part of a human's psychic apparatus that strives to satisfy basic human needs. The ego contains the conscious parts of one's awareness, as well as defense mechanisms and repressions that are used to mediate the id, superego, and the external world.

The Superego is the part of the psychic apparatus that contains the conscience and the religious or spiritual ideals.

Answer: The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense

'Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality' was published in 1905 and laid out psychosexual phases. 'On Narcissism' was published in 1915 and covered his theories on narcissism. 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle' was published in 1920 and was about the death instinct that he thought each human possessed (even though no evidence has been found to support this theory).

The 'Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense' was published in 1936 by Freud's daughter Anna Freud.

Answer: Oral

The concept of psychosexual development is a central element in his sexual drive theory, which posits that, from birth, humans have instinctual sexual appetites (libido) which unfold in a series of stages. Other stages, in order, include: anal, phallic, latent and genital.

Answer: The Interpretation of Dreams

The Oedipus complex holds that a boy is filled with hatred from his father and love for his mother. Freud believed that it was an important part of development to resolve this conflict.

Answer: hypnotism

Free association involves the patients just talking about whatever comes into their heads, and then it is up to the psychoanalyst to interpret what the person says to help them understand it. Transference is the relationship that a client needs to develop with the therapist in order for them to overcome their neurosis. Dream analysis is used as a way to look into one's unconscious and has a similar method of interpretation to free association.

Answer: joining

Joining is the technique that is used against defense mechanisms that involves going along with a patients defense mechanisms in order to allow the patient to engage in progressive communication with the therapist.

Answer: Sublimation

Rationalization creates false justifications for one's actions that seem plausible. Displacement is the act of directing one's emotions at someone other than the person who the emotions are truly aimed at. Regression is acting like a child in an attempt to avoid dealing with problems.