Freud's professional frustrations, and their political background in t

2. The author's references to The Interpretation of Dreams support all of the following conclusions EXCEPT that

Difficulty Level: 700

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Topic: Freud's professional frustrations
Scope: Professional frustrations and their political background
Purpose: To describe the political references

Paragraph 1: Analyses of his own dreams and in the analogies he introduced to explain the dream work

Analyze the Question Stem:

This is a Detail question, as it asks about specific references within the passage. Because this question asks "The author's references to The Interpretation of Dreams support all of the following conclusions EXCEPT that" the correct answer is the one that is not supported by the passage.

Research Relevant Text in the Passage:

The entire passage is about The Interpretation of Dreams, but the name of the work itself is found at the end of the first sentence, so that’s a good place to center our research when eliminating answers.

Make a Prediction:

All the incorrect answers will have evidence for them in the passage.

Evaluate the Answer Choices:

Choice (A) is wrong. The passage states that a political issue (anti-Semitism in Vienna) was the covert content in Freud’s own dreams.

Choice (B) is wrong. The passage details, with its example of the Dream of the Uncle, how a dream expresses unacknowledged desires in a symbolic form.

Answer Choice (C), however, is not supported by the passage and is thus the correct answer. The statement that Freud wouldn't be aware of the limitations of his own analysis is plausible but is not mentioned in the passage.

Choice (D) is wrong. The passage refers to the work as "pivotal" in the first sentence.

Choice (E) is also wrong. The passage’s first sentence directly states that political concerns are "reflected throughout..The Interpretation of Dreams."

Answer: C

1. According to the passage, Freud's suppressed wish in the Dream of the Uncle With the Yellow Beard was to

Difficulty Level: 700

Explanation

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Topic: Freud's professional frustrations

Scope: Professional frustrations and their political background

Purpose: To describe the political references

Paragraph 1: Analyses of his own dreams and in the analogies he introduced to explain the dream work

Analyze the Question Stem:

This is a Detail question because it uses the phrase “According to the passage.” All the information we need to answer this question is in the passage.

Research Relevant Text in the Passage:

The passage’s mention of the Dream of the Uncle with the Yellow Beard is found about midway through the passage’s only paragraph.

Make a Prediction:

After stating that dreams are disguised fulfillments of suppressed wishes, the author says that Freud's Dream of the Uncle "reveals a political wish" on Freud's part "to free himself from the fate of the Jews" — namely, Vienna's "growing anti-Semitism."

Evaluate the Answer Choices:

Choice (A) is too extreme. This is a focus on an imagined outcome of Freud's dream, not on the suppressed wish that fuels it

Choice (B) distorts a detail found in the passage. This is a distortion of the passage's last sentence, which describes the dreamer's psyche as containing a "censor."

Choice (C) distorts a detail found in the passage. At the beginning of the passage the growing anti-Semitism of Vienna in the Nineties is introduced as a political background.

Choice (D) is too extreme. The passage states it as a disguised political wish, not a way to advance himself.

Answer Choice (E) is directly supported by the passage. According to the passage, the dream reveals Freud's suppressed wish to personally avoid anti-Semitism.

Answer: E

2. The author's references to The Interpretation of Dreams support all of the following conclusions EXCEPT that

Difficulty Level: 650

Explanation

Read the Passage Strategically:

Here is an example of a Passage Map you could have created for this passage

Topic: Freud's professional frustrations

Scope: Professional frustrations and their political background

Purpose: To describe the political references

Paragraph 1: Analyses of his own dreams and in the analogies he introduced to explain the dream work

Analyze the Question Stem:

This is a Detail question, as it asks about specific references within the passage. Because this question asks "The author's references to The Interpretation of Dreams support all of the following conclusions EXCEPT that" the correct answer is the one that is not supported by the passage.

Research Relevant Text in the Passage:

The entire passage is about The Interpretation of Dreams, but the name of the work itself is found at the end of the first sentence, so that’s a good place to center our research when eliminating answers.

Make a Prediction:

All the incorrect answers will have evidence for them in the passage.

Evaluate the Answer Choices:

Choice (A) is wrong. The passage states that a political issue (anti-Semitism in Vienna) was the covert content in Freud’s own dreams.

Choice (B) is wrong. The passage details, with its example of the Dream of the Uncle, how a dream expresses unacknowledged desires in a symbolic form.

Answer Choice (C), however, is not supported by the passage, and is thus the correct answer. The statement that Freud wouldn't be aware of the limitations of his own analysis is plausible, but is not mentioned in the passage.

Choice (D) is wrong. The passage refers to the work as "pivotal" in the first sentence.

Choice (E) is also wrong. The passage’s first sentence directly states that political concerns are "reflected throughout The Interpretation of Dreams."

Answer: C