Internet Exercises

Exercise 1

Collins and Makowsky observe of Freud: “His revolutionary scientific work examined for the first time in a comprehensive and systematic manner the previously unsuspected notion that the fulfillment of a wish was the essential motive of a dream” (p. 133).

Go to http://www.smithwebdesign.com/worldofdreams/theory.html. After you have read the contents of this webpage, answer the following questions:

1. How did Freud first become aware of the significance of dreams?



2. What is the significance of the “censor” in Freudian dream analysis?



3. How are dreams related to the unconscious, preconscious, and conscious mind?



4. How do the id, ego, and superego fit in with Freud’s interpretation of dreams?

Exercise 2

Collins and Makowsky observe: “From his observations of patients and their neuroses Freud developed a model of five overlapping stages of psychosexual development: oral, anal, phallic, latent, and genital” (p. 136).

Go to http://psychology.about.com/library/weekly/aa111500a.htm. After reviewing the descriptions of each of Freud’s psychosexual stages, answer the following questions:

1. What are the symptoms of oral fixation?



2. What are the main characteristics of the anal-expulsive and anal-retentive personalities?



3. What is the significance of the “Oedipus Complex” and the “Electra Complex”?



4. What kinds of psychological difficulties may be encountered in the genital stage and why?