Q 01/05

Which drug did the young Sigmund Freud praise in an 1884 paper and recommend as a cure for morphine addiction?

A) Heroin

B) Cocaine

C) Cannabis

D) Ether

Answer · why

B) Cocaine

Cocaine backfired badly: the friend Freud gave it to as a cure developed a psychosis and went back to morphine.

Q 02/05

Which fish did the student Sigmund Freud dissect by the hundred in Trieste, searching for male sex organs?

A) Sharks

B) Carp

C) Eels

D) Sturgeon

Answer · why

C) Eels

Eels defeated him: Freud spent four weeks at a zoological station in 1876 cutting open hundreds of them, and the search ended inconclusively.

Q 03/05

Which mythical king of Thebes, who unknowingly killed his father, gave his name to Freud's most famous complex?

A) Oedipus

B) Theseus

C) Agamemnon

D) Perseus

Answer · why

A) Oedipus

Oedipus reached Freud through the theatre: the tragedy Sophocles wrote about him was a huge success on the stages of Paris and Vienna in the 1880s and...

Q 04/05

In The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud argued that every dream is the disguised fulfilment of what?

A) A fear

B) A memory

C) A warning

D) A wish

Answer · why

D) A wish

A wish drives every dream, Freud claimed, though the book that said so took eight years to sell its first 600 copies.

Q 05/05

Which Swiss psychiatrist, once Freud's chosen heir, went on to popularise the terms introvert and extravert?

A) Carl Jung

B) Eugen Bleuler

C) Jean Piaget

D) Ludwig Binswanger

Answer · why

A) Carl Jung

Carl Jung went on to found a rival school, analytical psychology, built around archetypes and the collective unconscious.