Philosophy 304, Summer 2005,

Quiz over Freud’s “Observations on Transference-Love”

Key: Correct answer for each is italicized.

1. Freud addresses the issues which result when

            a. a patient and doctor are in danger of being overcome by sexual desires

            b. a doctor discovers self-sabotaging desires in a particular therapy situation

            c. a patient is about to withdraw from treatment because of self-defense mechanisms

            d. erotic and destructive drives show up in the material to be analyzed

            e. a patient falls in love with a doctor.

2. Freud suggests that to a layman (by which he means someone outside the professional circles to whom he is speaking) the alternatives which will be imagined in these cases probably reduce to two:

            a. casual and meaningless sex, or a doomed but serious affair

            b. a breach of professional ethics, or the patient’s enlightenment

            c. unrequited love, or mutual love

            d. an increase in psychological health, or a decrease (increase in neurosis/insanity)

            e. the two establish a permanent and legal union, or they part.

3. Freud recommends an approach dominated by imagining an alternative the layman will probably not have considered, namely

            a. having fun while the possibility presents itself

            b. initiating the termination process by which the analysis may be brought to an end

            c. taking the situation as a prompt to re-examine the doctor’s own pathologies

            d. getting out and reading over the doctor’s Code of Ethics for its relevant provisions

            e. using the erotic transference for the good of the patient.

4. In the approach Freud recommends,

            a. the therapist must not yield to any temptation to fall in love in return

            b. the therapist must not reject the patient or suppress the topic

            c. the therapist must be honest

            d. the therapist must deny to the patient any satisfaction the patient demands

            e. all the above.

5. Transference-love between doctor and patient is different from other loves in what main way?

            a. other loves contain an ingredient of truth

            b. other loves are not used by people to resist insights into themselves

            c. other loves are based on equality of power between the lovers

            d. other loves are even more crazy

            e. in all the main ways, these transference-love relationships are similar, not different–the main ways they are different is that these transference-love relationships take place in a special setting which may exaggerate some characteristics of love.