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Practice Reading: Multiple Choice, Single Answer ID: #46941 Freud

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Children normally desire to vent aggressive impulses on other people, including their parents, because even the most attentive parents cannot gratify all of their demands immediately. Yet children, also fearing their parents’ punishment and the loss of parental love, come to repress most aggressive impulses. The Freudian perspective, in a sense, sees us as “steam engines.” By holding in rather than venting “steam,” we set the stage for future explosions. Pent-up aggressive impulses demand outlets. They may be expressed toward parents in indirect ways such as destroying furniture, or they may be expressed toward strangers later in life.

Freud describes people as “steam engines” in order to make the point that people

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deliberately build up their aggression to make themselves stronger usually release aggression in explosive ways must vent their aggression to prevent it from building up typically lose their aggression if they do not express it

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Freud describes people as “steam engines” in order to make the point that people

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Option 1: "deliberately build up their aggression to make themselves stronger"

Option 2: "usually release aggression in explosive ways"

Option 3: "must vent their aggression to prevent it from building up"

Option 4: "typically lose their aggression if they do not express it"