Select a text (book, film, song, etc.) and analyze it using a psychoanalytical approach. Record your discussion in a 4-5-minute podcast with one other students in class. Be sure to support your ideas with evidence and sound research (minimum of 2 sources)!
At some point in the podcast, there must be at least one parallel/comparison drawn to Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. To guide your analysis, you can use this list of questions:
- What forces are motivating the characters?
- Which behaviors of the characters are conscious ones?
- Which are unconscious?
- What conscious or unconscious conflicts exist between the characters?
- Given their backgrounds, how plausible is the characters’ behavior?
- Are the theories of Freud or other psychologists applicable to this work? To what degree?
- Do any of the characters correspond to the parts of the tripartite self? (Id, ego, superego)
- What roles do psychological disorders and dreams play in this story?
- Are the characters recognizable psychological types?
- How might a psychological approach account for different responses in female and male
readers?
- How does the work reflect the writer’s personal psychology?
- What do the characters’ emotions and behaviors reveal about their psychological states?
- How does the work reflect the unconscious dimensions of the writer’s mind?
- How does the reader’s own psychology affect his response to the work?
Remember to use the podcast rubric to aim for top quality!
Due BY THE END OF CLASS on Tuesday, December 14, 2021.
