According to Dr. Dino Felluga's module on Freud, Sigmund Freud's work on transference and trauma argues which of the following points ?
Correct answer: A. There is an undeniable "tension between the death-instinct and the sexual instincts."
- A. There is an undeniable "tension between the death-instinct and the sexual instincts."
- B. Repetition-compulsion does not help to come to terms with one's own mortality.
- C. Most victims of trauma do not exhibit "the compulsion of the human psyche to repeat traumatic events over and over again."
- D. Talk therapy will not help cure one's psychological neuroses concerning past trauma.Poetry
Explanation
Freud connects repetition-compulsion with a deeper tension between the death instinct and the sexual or life instincts. The repeated return to traumatic experience is precisely what makes repetition-compulsion significant, so the contrary claims in b and c are incorrect.
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