Question

_____. In neurotic anxiety, a person fears that inner impulses may become uncontrollable and lead to punishment. In moral anxiety, the person feels guilty or troubled about things he has done or even thought of doing. Both of these are connected to reality anxiety, which is the fear of actual dangers in the external world.

The passage then discusses neurotic anxiety, moral anxiety and reality anxiety. Option E naturally introduces Freuds three-part classification.

A When anxiety cannot be handled realistically, people turn to unrealistic forms of defence

B A panic attack usually begins with external danger, followed by perception and anxiety

C According to psychodynamic theory, defence mechanisms may become primitive and desperate

D Anxiety differs from other painful states because the sufferer remains conscious during it

E Freud distinguished between three different kinds of anxiety

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