Psychoanalysis quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   What psychological complex was named after a tragic Greek king?

   Answer: Oedipus complex

   Why: Freud named the concept after Sophocles' tragedy, in which Oedipus unknowingly fulfills a prophecy to kill his father and marry his mother.

2. 2 Medium

   Which part of the personality did Donald Winnicott call authentic?

   Answer: True Self

   Why: Winnicott believed the True Self is rooted in bodily sensations and spontaneous creative expression.

3. 3 Hard

   Which Adlerian concept is the imagined goal directing all human striving?

   Answer: Fictional finalism

   Why: Adler drew the idea from Hans Vaihinger's Philosophy of As If (1911): a goal need not be true, only useful enough to steer a whole life.

4. 4 Easy

   Who mentored Sigmund Freud and co-wrote the founding text Studies on Hysteria?

   Answer: Josef Breuer

   Why: Josef Breuer pioneered the cathartic method during his clinical work before partnering with Freud.

5. 5 Medium

   Which concept is the most distinctive feature of Carl Jung's theory?

   Answer: Collective unconscious

   Why: He argued it holds inherited patterns shared across humanity, which is where his archetypes come from.

6. 6 Hard

   Which psychoanalyst pioneered the most widespread method of Group Analytic psychotherapy?

   Answer: S.H. Foulkes

   Why: Foulkes called the therapist the group's conductor, not its director, and founded the Group Analytic Society in London in 1952.