Question 1
A 28-year-old patient presents to the hospital outpatient clinic with sudden functional aphonia following an intense domestic argument in which she felt forbidden to express her anger. Organic and neurological examinations reveal no physiological lesions. In Freudian psychoanalytic theory, which metapsychological mechanism best explains this conversion symptom (*histeria de conversión*)?
Correct Answer:
Conversion of the repressed libidinal affect into somatic innervation through somatic compliance (*complacencia somática*)
Question 2
A 32-year-old accountant reports spending several hours each evening repeatedly turning light switches on and off three times and repeating a specific religious phrase in reverse to 'neutralize' sudden intrusive thoughts of harming his father. In Freudian psychoanalysis, which unconscious defense mechanism operates alongside isolation (*aislamiento*) in obsessional neurosis (*neurosis obsesiva*)?
Correct Answer:
Undoing / Retroactive annulment (*Anulación retroactiva* / *Ungeschehenmachen*)
Question 3
In Sigmund Freud's analysis of 'Little Hans' (*El pequeño Hans*, 1909), a 5-year-old boy develops an intense phobia of horses after seeing a large horse fall in the street. What is the fundamental structural function of the phobic object (*objeto fobígeno*) in phobia (*histeria de angustia*)?
Correct Answer:
It binds free-floating anxiety to a substitutive external representation, organizing psychic space
Question 4
In 'Mourning and Melancholia' (*Duelo y melancolía*, 1917), Sigmund Freud compares the psychic work of normal mourning (*duelo*) with melancholia (*melancolía*). Which metapsychological feature fundamentally distinguishes melancholia from mourning?
Correct Answer:
In mourning, the world has become poor and empty, whereas in melancholia, the ego itself has become impoverished and worthless
Question 5
According to Jacques Lacan's 1949 paper 'The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function' (*El estadio del espejo como formador de la función del yo*), what is the psychological significance of an infant between 6 and 18 months recognizing its reflection in a mirror?
Correct Answer:
An experience of jubilation through which the infant identifies with a unified external image, constituting the ego (*moi*) in an alienating imaginary matrix
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