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Questions 8 to 10 refer to the passage below. For each question, select one answer choice, unless the instructions state otherwise.
[Sigmund] Freud was also a social critic. He believed that society, which has been fashioned by man, reflects to a great extent man’s irrationality. As a consequence, each new generation is corrupted by being born into an irrational society. The influence of man on society and of society on man is a vicious circle from which only a few hardy souls can free themselves. Freud felt that the situation might be ameliorated by the application of psychological principles in raising and educating children. This would mean, of course, that parents and teachers would have to undergo a psychological reeducation before they could be effective agents of reason and truth. Freud did not minimize the immensity of this task, but he did not know any other way by which to create a better society and better people. Freud’s social criticism is presented in his book Civilization and Its Discontents. What then was Freud? Physician, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, psychologist, philosopher, and critic—these were his several vocations. Yet, taken separately or together, they do not really convey Freud’s importance to the world. Although the word “genius” is used indiscriminately to describe a number of people, there is no other single word that fits Freud as well as this word does. He was a genius. One may prefer to think of him, as I do, as one of the few men in history who possessed a universal mind. Like Shakespeare and Goethe and Leonardo da Vinci, whatever Freud touched he illuminated. He was a very wise man.
Questions 8 to 10 refer to the passage below. For each question, select one answer choice, unless the instructions state otherwise.
[Sigmund] Freud was also a social critic. He believed that society, which has been fashioned by man, reflects to a great extent man’s irrationality. As a consequence, each new generation is corrupted by being born into an irrational society. The influence of man on society and of society on man is a vicious circle from which only a few hardy souls can free themselves. Freud felt that the situation might be ameliorated by the application of psychological principles in raising and educating children. This would mean, of course, that parents and teachers would have to undergo a psychological reeducation before they could be effective agents of reason and truth. Freud did not minimize the immensity of this task, but he did not know any other way by which to create a better society and better people. Freud’s social criticism is presented in his book Civilization and Its Discontents. What then was Freud? Physician, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, psychologist, philosopher, and critic—these were his several vocations. Yet, taken separately or together, they do not really convey Freud’s importance to the world. Although the word “genius” is used indiscriminately to describe a number of people, there is no other single word that fits Freud as well as this word does. He was a genius. One may prefer to think of him, as I do, as one of the few men in history who possessed a universal mind. Like Shakespeare and Goethe and Leonardo da Vinci, whatever Freud touched he illuminated. He was a very wise man.
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