Deconstruction & Psychoanalysis

A plant system with no central node is called a

• tree

• rhizome

• sign

• roots

Who is considered the "father" of poststructuralism/deconstruction?

• Jacques Lacan

• Homi Bhaba

• Ferdinand de Saussure

• Jacques Derrida

What term describes how meaning in language is always deferred and never perfectly communicated by signs?

• differance

• distinction

• signification

• play

What statement would a deconstructionist disagree with?

• There exist multiplicities of meaning

• A text has no meaning.

• Texts are characterized by disunity.

• Language constructs reality.

What is a term from postmodernism that refers to a copy without an original?

• transcendental signified

• simulation

• simulacra

• text

What is the mistaken belief that language is comprised of stable meanings that can be mastered?

• intentional fallacy

• free-floating signifier

• biographical fallacy

• phallogocentrism

What do poststructuralists think about binaries?

• Not natural or inevitable

• Stable structures that organize our world

• Natural categories

• Irrelevant to understanding language and power

Psychoanalysis is about exploring what?

• ideology

• power structures

• gender

• the unconscious

The Interpretation of Dreams is a foundational work of psychoanalysis authored by . . .

• Jacques Lacan

• Michel Foucault

• Sigmund Freud

• Roland Barthes

The forgetting or ignoring of unresolved conflicts, unadmitted desires, or traumatic events is called . . .

• repression

• dialogue

• interpellation

• projection