NOTE: The mid-term examination will consist of 47 multiple-choice items and three essays. You may prepare by studying in advance, but will not be permitted to refer to notes or other material while the test is in progress.
This study guide does not necessarily cover all the material which will appear on the test. Students are advised to thoroughly review class notes, handouts and reading assignments prior to the test date.
1. Sigmund Freud: years and places of his birth and death; religious background; academic training; theoretical orientation. Important terms: psychoanalysis, id, ego, superego, catharsis, projection, unconscious denial.
2. Carl G. Jung: religious background; academic training; theoretical orientation; title of autobiography; dreams (as discussed in class); archetypal imagery in general; feminine and Goddess oriented archetypal images. Important terms individuation, group consciousness, shadow, persona, anima and animus.
3. Other material:
a. John Rowan, text author: personal background and training; what does he say is the aim of therapy?; views on feminism and sex-role stereotyping; Important terms: the wound, third channel of healing, instrumental vs. expressive.
b. In general: Important terms: encounter groups/t-groups, humanistic psychology, androgyny, essential or existential isolation, morbid grief.
ESSAY QUESTIONS
Essays should be concise and complete. Choose and respond to three of the following:
1. Describe the relationship in the human psyche between the phenomena of the Burning Times or witch-hunts of the middle ages, the Holocaust, and racism in modern times.
2. (a) Describe Rowan's concept of the "third channel of healing." (b) What, if anything, have you gained from reading The Horned God, and from participating in related discussion in class?
3. In Jungian terms, explain some symbolic similarities between The Fool of the Tarot deck (as described in the class handout), the police sergeant portrayed in The Wicker Man, and the rest of humanity.
4. Are there any similarities between the emotional or external experiences Victor Frankl relates in Man's Search for Meaning, surviving Auschwitz, and your own experience at the hands of the People of the State of New York? If so, what are they? What politically realistic ways do you see to improve conditions in state prisons?
As taught 1987 to 1989 in Woddbourne and Sullivan state correctional facilities.
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