Q 01/05

Where did Freud sit while someone lay talking on his famous couch?

A) Behind them, out of sight

B) At a desk across the room

C) On a stool at their feet

D) Beside them, taking notes

Answer · why

A) Behind them, out of sight

Behind them, out of sight: Freud said he could not put up with being stared at for eight hours a day. He also wanted his own expressions kept from ste...

Q 02/05

What are the three parts of the model of psychic structure Freud developed?

A) Id, ego and superego

B) Persona, shadow and anima

C) Reason, spirit and appetite

D) Parent, adult and child

Answer · why

A) Id, ego and superego

Id, ego and superego are his English translators' Latin. Freud wrote in plain German of das Es, das Ich and das Über-Ich: the It, the I and the Over-I...

Q 03/05

What did Freud call the sexual energy he believed drives much of mental life?

A) Élan vital

B) Animus

C) Orgone

D) Libido

Answer · why

D) Libido

Libido could be redirected, Freud argued: denied a sexual outlet, it is 'sublimated' into art, science and other work the world rewards.

Q 04/05

Which complex did Freud arrive at by analysing his own childhood jealousy of his father?

A) The Electra complex

B) The Oedipus complex

C) The Cassandra complex

D) The inferiority complex

Answer · why

B) The Oedipus complex

The Oedipus complex came out of the self-analysis Freud began after his father died in 1896. He found love for his mother and jealousy of his father i...

Q 05/05

Freud is tied to Vienna, but his birthplace, the Moravian town of Freiberg, now lies in which country?

A) Slovakia

B) Czechia

C) Hungary

D) Poland

Answer · why

B) Czechia

Czechia: Freiberg is now the Czech town of Příbor. Money trouble drove the family out when Freud was three, and by 1860 they were in Vienna, his home ...