Explanation

The first word is defined in the sentence as a device useful for inciting and guiding discovery. That’s precisely what heuristic means. If you are not meant to take the model of the psyche as guide to the physical structure of the brain, then you want a word that means something like “show” or “depict” for the second word. Represent is the closest.

Heuristic, represent.
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Hello Carcass

Is it me or this one is a tough one?

I got very confused between allegorical and heuristic and with dictate and represent.

Why can't we use "dictate" I don't actually find the argument to rule it out.

Kind regards!

When you solve a TC question a lot comes in handy your broad knowledge, not only a specific insight of the vocab word per see.

The meaning of the sentence is that we should understand what Freud said in a more broad-spectrum, at large.

Sop the first blank cannot be allegorical. it is a structure of our mind. Must be A which means to understand it following usual and UNusual patterns

rather than to represent a standard and simple approach one-to-one parts. A more complex interaction among the parts which is NOT a zero sum

Something beyond. This is a question if you follow this approach, you can solve in 3 seconds or even less

A good question though

Ask for further assistance

Regards
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Why not DICTATE?
Since heuristic guides and and incites, it does not plainly dictate or define relationships.
Like a tool doesnt dictate the depth of dent on a surface, laws of physics, force etc do.

Moreover, psyche itself is a metaphysical concept so how can a model show PHYSICAL relationships..... (unless ofc you go into biology of faith but that is beyond the purview of GRE, I hope)

I do not understand sir.

yours is a question or a reflection ?

sorry
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It is a Question explaining my position on why I think the other one is right. Would it be possible to refute those arguments to show how I could eliminate that choice?

Freud’s structural model of the psyche should be understood as (i) _________ device, useful for inciting and guiding discovery, rather than as an attempt to (ii) _________ physical relationships among parts of the human brain.

Actually the meaning of the sentence is the following:

what Freaud told or taught us was to understand his predicaments via or using a holistic approach and not in a way that we could call: compartmentalization. In other words, think in a way that is NOT zero-sum, in a broader manner


Freud’s structural model of the psyche should be understood as (i) _________ device - heuristic

and this approach we should follow

useful for inciting and guiding discovery, rather than as an attempt to (ii) _________ physical relationships among parts of the human brain.

it is the correct way instead to try or attempt to depict - forcefully - a possible relationship among the parts. we should use or understand the big picture.


Let me know if it is still not clear why the other answer choices are incorrect

regards
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