With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentiethcentury thinker Sigmund Freud associated ?
Correct answer: B. psychoanalysis
- A. eugenics
- B. psychoanalysis
- C. phrenology
- D. all of the above
Explanation
Freud founded psychoanalysis, the study of unconscious desires, repression, and mental conflict. Eugenics and phrenology were separate nineteenth-century theories, not Freud’s defining practice.
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