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ACT Reading 1.8 Social Science Passage. The "mythological hypothesis" in lines 11 and 12 refers to which of the following?

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Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by the Oedipus Complex.

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It's even more complex than you think.

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The "mythological hypothesis" in lines 11 and 12 refers to which of the following?

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We have to look back at the first paragraph to see that this term refers to what Freud

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also calls the "prescientific days"—when dreams were chalked up to some form of supernatural intervention.

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Many people here at Shmoop actually still thinks this is true.

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We could argue that choice (D) is the... most wrong of the wrong answers.

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Freud was all about dream analysis, so we highly doubt he would say it's totally untrue.

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Choice (C) might actually be the wrong-est of the wrong answers.

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This was Freud's whole thing. Others might not buy into it, but nobody's been able to disprove it.

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Answer (A) doesn't seem totally farfetched--especially coming from Freud, who brought us such gems

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as the Oedipus Complex.

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However, the passage doesn't mention this at all, so (A) can be eliminated.

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Choice (B) is the way to go. By "mythological hypothesis," Freud is referring to the idea

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that dreams come from some divine entity.

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