RMC201 - Chapter 6 Review Questions with Complete Answers Latest Update Graded A+
Focus Questions - Answers - What did Freud write about the unconscious? How is the psyche like an
iceberg?
- What are the four stages we go through in our sexual development?
- What is the Oedipus complex? How does it shape texts such as King Kong and the Bond novels?
- Define the id, ego, and superego.
- How is the id, ego, and superego typology applied to media and society?
- What are the most important "defense mechanisms"?
- What does psychoanalyst Martin Grotjahn say about horror films and mysteries?
- What did Freud say about masculine and feminine symbols?
- How are the theories of Erik Erikson applied to smartphone use?
- What did Jung and Jungians say about archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the "myth of the
hero"?
- What was said about the anima and the animus?
- What did Jung write about the shadow element in the psyche?
Psychoanalytic theory - Answers Psychoanalytic theory applies the insights of Sigmund Freud and other
thinkers, such as Carl Jung, to texts of all kinds—works of serious literature as well as mass-mediated
texts. Both had theories about how the human mind functions that can be used to interpret matters
such as the creative process and the motivations of characters in stories.
Human Psyche (Freud) - Answers divided into three spheres: the conscious, the preconscious, and the
unconscious.
The Unconscious - Answers according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes,
feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we
are unaware. Psychoanalytic criticism suggests that works of art resonate with this unconscious material
in our minds.
The Oedipus Complex - Answers according to Freud, a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and
feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father
Human Sexuality - Answers Freud used the term libido for the "force by which the sexual instinct is
represented in the mind." He suggested that all human beings pass through four stages in their sexual
development. These stages are: the oral, the anal, the phallic, and the genital.
Focus Questions - Answers - What did Freud write about the unconscious? How is the psyche like an
iceberg?
- What are the four stages we go through in our sexual development?
- What is the Oedipus complex? How does it shape texts such as King Kong and the Bond novels?
- Define the id, ego, and superego.
- How is the id, ego, and superego typology applied to media and society?
- What are the most important "defense mechanisms"?
- What does psychoanalyst Martin Grotjahn say about horror films and mysteries?
- What did Freud say about masculine and feminine symbols?
- How are the theories of Erik Erikson applied to smartphone use?
- What did Jung and Jungians say about archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the "myth of the
hero"?
- What was said about the anima and the animus?
- What did Jung write about the shadow element in the psyche?
Psychoanalytic theory - Answers Psychoanalytic theory applies the insights of Sigmund Freud and other
thinkers, such as Carl Jung, to texts of all kinds—works of serious literature as well as mass-mediated
texts. Both had theories about how the human mind functions that can be used to interpret matters
such as the creative process and the motivations of characters in stories.
Human Psyche (Freud) - Answers divided into three spheres: the conscious, the preconscious, and the
unconscious.
The Unconscious - Answers according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes,
feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we
are unaware. Psychoanalytic criticism suggests that works of art resonate with this unconscious material
in our minds.
The Oedipus Complex - Answers according to Freud, a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and
feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father
Human Sexuality - Answers Freud used the term libido for the "force by which the sexual instinct is
represented in the mind." He suggested that all human beings pass through four stages in their sexual
development. These stages are: the oral, the anal, the phallic, and the genital.
