Preston High School
Psych & Religion
Fall 2013
Learning Center: Introducing Freud
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Get into a group of four or five
Have one of your members get the learning center folder for Freud
Assign Literature circle roles to each group member (if only four in a group, someone will have
to take more than one lit circle role
Review your role making sure you understand it. Since the pages are double sided, you may
have to copy your lit circle role questions and guidelines to your notebook
Begin reading the packet together, making note of the pictures and what meaning, insights, or
new questions they may provide
Fill out your literature circle sheet as best as possible. If you do not finish, it needs to be finished
for homework.
Goal number one is to have an interesting, insightful conversation with your group
You will use this exercise as the basis for your first Think Paper on Freud due next Sunday
night through Turnitin.com
Some Pre-read Terms and Questions
Mechanism
Neuropathology
Hysteria
Neurosis
Wish-fulfillment
Manifest-Content
Latent-Content
Censor
Free Association
Freudian Symbols
displacement
Anna O
The Talking Cure
Oedipus Complex
pathogenic
Some Facilitation Questions
1. What was disturbing about Mechanism’s approach to the brain? What were some of its
implications?
2. What lesson did Freud learn from his use of cocaine?
3. In general, what were all dreams, according to Freud?
4. How do dreams prove the existence of the unconscious?