The Sense of Symptoms and Fixation to Trauma Questionnaire

read the handout:

Freud Reading: Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

Sigmund Freud: Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

For this homework, you are to read the handout titled: ” Sigmund Freud: Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis.”

The Sense of Symptoms

1. (line # 6 Lecture Sense of Symptoms): Symptoms are said to be related to a patient’s?
2. (line # 33 Lecture XVII): Neurotic symptoms are said to have a connections with?
3. (line #  Lecture XVII): Freud said that obsessional neurosis (ON) …”dispenses almost entirely with somatic phenomena, and creates all its symptoms in the mental sphere.” What does that mean in your own words?
4. (line # 49-50 Lecture XVII): What are the two disorders which psychoanalysis was first built?
5. (line # 59 Lecture XVII): In Obsessional neurosis the patient does or does not with thoughts that he is interested in?
6. (line # 61 Lecture XVII): Does the patient feel as if the impulses in themselves are normal or strange?
7. (line # 63-64 Lecture XVII): This patient, does he enjoy or not enjoy the impulses and obsessions?
8. (line # 63-64 Lecture XVII): The patient is lead to actions that which they feel that they can control or not control- or omit?
9. (line # 71-72 Lecture XVII): Freud described the impulses in the patient as?
10. (line # 77 Lecture XVII): What does Freud mean by ‘prohibitions?
11. (line # 82 Lecture XVII): What does Freud mean by ‘obsessional actions’?
12. (line # 87-89 Lecture XVII): Are the obsessional neurosis, pathological ideas, impulses, and actions all combined in the patient in the same proportions?
13. (line # 107 Lecture XVII): What do you think that Freud meant by ‘displacements’?
14. (line # 112 Lecture XVII): “The ability to displace any symptom into something far removed from its original conformation is? What does displace mean here?

Fixation to Trauma

1. (line # 1-5 Fixation to Trauma): Persons who experience trauma are said to be alienated from?
2. (line # 9-10 Fixation to Trauma): What was the trauma of the first woman?
3. (line # 22-28 Fixation to Trauma): What was the trauma of the second woman?
4. (line # 40-43 Fixation to Trauma): In both woman’s lives we see that they had been carried back to?
5. (line # 61-62 Fixation to Trauma): Where do patients repeat their traumatic neuroses?
6. (line # 59-60 Fixation to Trauma): Traumatic neurosis gives clear indication that fixation to the moment of_____ lies at their root.
7. (line # 69-70 Fixation to Trauma): What was does Freud mean by the word ‘economic’?