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Sometime around 1914-15, Lytton Strachey jotted down a spoof examination paper on psychoanalysis. Beginning with ‘elementary’ questions on the reproductive system of the periwinkle and the biography of Oedipus, and proceeding through the history of French Letters to the psycho-pathography of Shakespeare's sonnets, the advanced student is instructed to
Elucidate, on the basis of Dr. Freud's teaching,
The Conversion of St. Paul.
The Channel Tunnel project.
The European War.
The growing popularity of tooth-picks in the United States.
Other exam questions include:
Bestiality: should it be encouraged? And if not, why not?
What evidence of inversion can you point to in the works of
Either (a) Sophocles