Question

1. Esme and Chloe are having a conversation about men. “You know,” Chloe says, “I think my husband tries to annoy me! Even though he tries to do what I ask, I think that subconsciously he really enjoys ticking me off to see the reactions he’ll get. Freud must have been right!” Esme, who has just studied personality psychology in school, corrects Chloe by saying which of the following?

Group of answer choices

1)“Freud really didn’t address the psychological functioning of men, Chloe, only women.”

2)“Freud’s theory has absolutely no validity in the modern times, Chloe. Stop analyzing your husband!”

3)“Well, Chloe, there really is no ‘subconscious’ in Freud’s theory!”

4) “You’re probably right, Chloe. Freud was really into subconscious motives.”

Answer 1

Right answer - 3)“Well, Chloe, there really is no ‘subconscious’ in Freud’s theory!”

Explanation - in the personality theory of Freud's we can see there is no longer application of the term "subconscious". The reason behind this was Freud used three terms to describe a person's mental set that reflected in that person's personality. These terms were Conscious, preconscious and the Unconscious. So here we can say the correction of Freud’s theory of personality has been done by the following sentence.