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Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by unicorns. Watch out. Like camels, they spit.

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Based on the information provided in the passage, which of the following practices might Freud support?

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By this stage of the game, we're all aware that Freud thought dream interpretation could

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be a useful tool in psychoanalysis.

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Knowing this, we can swiftly eliminate choice (D), which seems to think Freud has no idea

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what he was talking about.

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Choice A is a little tricky. Freud does reference the "mythology hypothesis" in the passage,

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even saying that it's not totally crazy.

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However, he doesn't recommend that people go directly to mythology to figure out what's

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going on inside their heads.

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It'd be like asking your local unicorn for some free psychoanalysis.

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Choice (A) is cut.

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Freud would be happy that another psychoanalyst was helping a patient understand his or her dreams.

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Music isn't mentioned as a specific tool for psychoanalysis in the passage, however,

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so we can get rid of (B).

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Choice (C) definitely sounds like something Freud would be into, since keeping a dream

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journal would allow a patient and their analyst to really dig into the patient's dreams.

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(C) is the best answer.

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We wonder if our local unicorn would prescribe dream journaling...

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