The 2011 Room 328 Psychologial Conference

For this convention:

• You will be informally presenting a psycho analysis to a seminar of learned doctors (ie: your peers).
• You will either interview either a peer (but you must consent to working together!!!!)
• or a famous figure from the list of choices given to you for this conference. NO REPEATS!!!!  
• You will have your choice of which patient you want based off of your current term average. Rewards for those who put in effort! If you are absent, you will be assigned someone (sorry, be in school!)

Your Findings must include:

• stages of fixation and their behavioral effects, transference issues, defense mechanisms.
• All diagnosis must be supported by examples.

Research for a classmate:

• You must interview your partner thoroughly, asking him or her questions about their life, things that bother or upset, what they want or need, how they would react in certain situations so that you can make inferences about their behaviors.
• You will make a diagnosis based off of your interview. If You have trouble diagnosing, then it is probably because YOU didn’t conduct an informative interview!

 Research for Public Figure:

• Make a list of things that the person has done or said throughout not only their career in the public eye, but even before they became who you know them to be (issues may have developed during childhood).
• Then use these words and actions to determine what the celeb really wants, needs, thinks, or feels. Use that analysis to make your diagnosis

Possible Famous Patients:

Ben Roethlisberger Britney Spears Charlie Sheen Chirs Brown Demi Lovato Fred Phelps Gary Busey

Hosni Mubarak Kanye West Kendra Baskett Lindsay Lohan Michael Vick Miley Cyrus Moammar Gadhafi

Mel Gibson Rihanna Ronnie (JerseyShore) Sammy Sweetheart Snooki The Situation Tiger Woods

DUE MONDAY!!!

Grade 12: Psychoanalysis Project Guidelines

Psychoanalysis Project

For this project:

• Working in group of 4 or 5, you will have to create a 10-15 minute movie (on DVD) in which you portray 5 characters (each member of your group must play a character) from this year’s literature, at least ONE from each term.
• Your portrayal must lend itself to a psychoanalytic understanding of each character.
• This will be a TEST grade
• Will be part of your FINAL GRADE for Term 5

 

You must have the following:

• You portrayal of each character will show that you understand not only the character, but his internal and external conflicts, the novel as a whole, and other people who have influenced that character as well. The actions and words need to be specific to their personality.
• One person in your group with access to and knowledge of i-movie (or similar software):
  • These people will be the first assigned to each group so that the “experts” are evenly distributed.
  • They have access to the software. They should NOT do this entire project by themselves, but will supervise and use their expertise.
• You will have to get access to computer software, your own recording device(s) and blank DVD
• A group leader
• Initial character psycho analysis: Use FREUD!!!
• Scripts/Stage direction (or a knowledge of what will be said/done in each scene)
• THREE documented meeting times in which you indicate what you accomplished
• A 10-15 min DVD (must work in my computer). I will keep the DVD’s
• Scenes, camera angles, music, an opening introduction, credits (credits/opening should not be more than 45 seconds TOTAL!!!

Your video should include the following:

• Technical: An opening introduction, at least 3 scenes, different camera angles, music/sounds, credits (just like a show)
• Logical setting which will reveals psychoanalysis: think of why these characters would be together and what they would reveal about themselves in this setting (talk show, real world, Breakfast Club, Teen Movie, etc). Each setting in the scene needs to be logical and explain something about the characters
• Set Design: The setting must look like it is where you have said it is: if you are on a talk show, it must look that way.
• Props/costumes: needs to be something specific to the characters: what would someone like “them” wear, depending on your setting? What would they have as a prop to show a fixation or specific trait in their psychoanalytical analysis?
• Character Actions: Must represent something significant about their personality, must show  psychoanalytical aspects of the character (either first or third person)
• Dialogue: The responses, arguments, conversations of each character must represent something significant about their personality, must show  psychoanalytical aspects of the characters. Why do they say what they say? Does it show an oral aggressive personality, for example?

Group Assignments:

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4	Group 5	Group 6
Brian	Deyon	Tony	Ky	Franky	Nancy T
Vlad	Danny	Nancy N	Peter	Liana	Jess M
Depina	Tiny	Linda	Davide	Leticia	Jess H
Dario	Hector	Kevin	Jorgelina	Egeria	Anna
Joe	Sean	Jeff	Jazz	Tania	XXXXXX