Exam Topics A - REL 353 Dark Self

The exam will be in two parts. Part I will be on matters related to Writing Papers. Part II will be on topics covered thus far in the readings and lectures. If you will not be here on Thursday, October 25 to take the exam, you must make prior arrangements by Thursday, October 18. You must receive prior permission for absence as well as to take the exam separately. Only exceptional cases will be allowed.

The exam will be multiple choice, and as covered in the syllabus, will count 10% of your grade. There is only one right answer per question. If there appears to be more than one right answer, pick the best answer.

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Part I: Writing Papers

Read the following essays and guidelines that are posted on the Writing Papers links on my web pages:

I. Four Keys to Writing in the Humanities

II. Four Stages of Writing

III. Paper Writing Guidelines

IV. Writing: The Bridge between Consciousness and Unconsciousness
 
 

Part II: Readings and Lectures

Soren Kierkegaard

• According to Soren Kierkegaard (SK), what are the three spheres of existence (lecture)?
• According to SK, what is the "double movement" made by the Knight of Faith?
• What is the teleological suspension of the ethical?
• For SK, what is the sickness unto death, and whose death does this signify?
• Who is Anti-Climacus?
• What is the relation between the pseudonymous works by SK and those written in his own name?

Bhagavad Gita

• What is the problem that the warrior Arjuna brings to the god Krishna?
• What is Krishna's reply to Arjuna?

C. G. Jung, according to Robert Aziz

• What is "individuation" and what is the role of the unconscious in it?
• How does one gain access to the unconscious according to Jung?
• What are the archetypes and archetypal images?
• What is the unconscious?

Viktor Frankl

• What does "Logotherapy" mean?
• What is the 'two-fold loss' or double loss that Frankl states human beings suffer?
• What is the relation between existential meaning and physical health according to Frankl?

Jacques Lusseyran

• What are at least three kinds of "seeing" according to Lusseyran?
• What is Lusseyran's view of the relationship between the inner and outer worlds?
• What is the relationship between Jacques Lusseyran and Jean?