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A cultural crisis

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The crisis of certainties
Choose the correct alternative to complete the sentences.

1. A disillusioned and cynical mood spread across Britain after the ________ World War.
2. Some soldiers were in a frantic search for pleasure; others were haunted by a sense of guilt for the horrors of the war; others missed the ________ given by the war experience.
3. The gap between the new and the old generations ________.
4. The slow dissolution of the Empire resulting in the ________ caused a growing feeling of rootlessness.
5. Edward Morgan Forster was ________ about political subjection and more inclined towards personal relationships based on equality.
6. Scientists and philosophers ________ the old universe at the root of Victorian optimism.
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Art in the age of anxiety
Tick the names of the three artists who are not related to this period.
A: Salvador Dalí.
B: Paul Nash.
C: Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
D: James McNeill Whistler.
E: William Morris.
F: René Magritte.
G: Marcel Duchamp.
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Freud's influence
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Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams
A: underlined the power of the unconscious on behaviour.
B: was very reassuring.
C: was written just after the First World War.
D: stated that the Oedipus phase was not linked to libido, but to rational behaviour.
E: maintained that man's actions could be driven by irrational forces.
F: placed huge importance on the concept of 'libido'.
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Freud's influence
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Freud's theory changed the relationship between parents and friends. The fact that the child sees the mother as a rival and the idea of infantile sexuality emphasised the importance of early development. Consequently, parenthood regained a central status in society and, partly thanks to the Suffragettes, the conventional models of the relationship between men and women were questioned. The Freudian concept of 'free will' and the analysis of dreams helped investigate the human mind in a new way, which influenced contemporary readers.
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Freud's and Jung's theory
The following features refer either to Sigmund Freud or to Carl Gustav Jung. Choose the correct alternative.
A: He emphasised the importance of libido and dreams.
B: He coined the concept of 'collective unconscious'.
C: He implied that some figures or objects have great symbolic power.
D: His view of the developing psyche was based on the power of the unconscious.
E: He thought that there exists a cultural memory operating on a symbolic level.
F: He believed that only the psychologist and the poet could understand symbols and archetypes.
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The theory of relativity
Complete the sentences with the correct information.

1. Albert Einstein introduced the idea of 'relativity' in ________.
2. According to his theory, time and ________ are subjective dimensions.
3. His scientific revolution entailed a loss of ________ in the world view accepted as true at the time.
4. His theory influenced literature in the form of verbal ________ and the exploration of memory.
5. The effect of his theory on art was a rebellion against ________ and phenomenal representation.
6. His theory prompted the revolution of tone, rhythm and harmony in ________.
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A new concept of time
Complete the sentences with the words below.

1. William James wrote The Principles of Psychology in ________.
2. Henri Bergson was a French philosopher born in ________.
3. Henri Bergson suggested that a feeling could be measured according to the number of ________ linked to it.
4. Henri Bergson distinguished ________ time from psychological time.
5. William James affirmed that our ________ record experience as a ________ flow of 'the already' into 'the not yet'.
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Bergson's concept of time
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According to Bergson, psychological time
A: is external.
B: is linear.
C: can be measured with a pendulum or a clock.
D: is subjective.
E: can be measured by the relative emotional intensity of a moment.
F: is internal.
G: cannot be measured.
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Anthropological studies
Read the following sentences and say whether they are true or false.
A: Anthropology questioned the assumed rightness of the Western way of life.
B: One major work of anthropology of the period was The Golden Bough by Henri Bergson.
C: The Golden Bough was written in 1890, the year before William James's The Principles of Psychology.
D: Anthropological studies helped replace the absolute truth of religion and ethics with more relativist perspectives.
E: Primitive societies were rejected as objects of study.
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A new picture of man
Match the following names with the correct information.

1. Man is a biological and psychological phenomenon according to ________.
2. Man is the outcome of social and economic forces according to ________.
3. God is dead and human power must substitute morality according to ________.
4. Man owes his possibilities of salvation to God's grace according to ________.
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