Analyze Evidence: Instead of relying on plot summary you will support your interpretation by using and analyzing evidence (for instance, you should comment on a specific scenes or moments in the film). When you support your analysis with the theoretical texts make sure you cite the page number: for instance, after the quotation put the page number in parenthesis (60). Avoid writing out “on page 60″. Make sure you provide adequate context for the quotes you’re using: in other words, avoid dropping quotes in a seemingly random way.
Write Like a Mini-Essay: Avoid responding to the prompts in the form of bullet points or in a mechanical, step-by-step way. Instead, respond to the prompts as if it was a short essay. Use multiple paragraphs (at least three) to organize your response.
Title Your Post: After you finish writing your response make sure to write an original title that captures the main idea you are focusing on. You want to avoid having a generic title like ‘Discussion of Ordinary People”.
After giving your general impression of the film
Respond to the Following Thematics
• The Over-Determination of the Symptom: For Freud, unconscious psychical symptoms (what Freud would call “the id”) disturibing individuals are over-determined: that is, while there may be a traumatic event that triggered the formation of symptoms like anxiety, the events are part of a repressed network of ideas and “feelings” (often dating back to childhood) that must be worked-through and disentangled in analysis. How is Conrad’s trauma over-determined by unconscious relations of ideas and feelings?
• Transference: “Transference” is one of the key concepts of psychoanalysis. It refers to a psychical process of projection that happens unconsciously, but it is also the term for much of what goes on in analysis. Describe the process of psychoanalysis in the film. How would you describe a key moment of transference in the film?
• The Ego and Super-Ego: For Freud, a key goal of psychoanalysis was to make the ego more independent of the super-ego, which Freud characterized as an often cruel and punishing agency in the individual’s psyche. Who is a super-egoic presence in the film and what unconscious/unstated ideas are expressed by this person.
I hope I can get this same writer to complete the rough draft and final powerpoint as soon as the teacher posts her instructions. This part was great! Thank you so much.
James Raphael
This is exactly what I needed and the confidence that I am heading in the right direction to finish the assignment. Thank you so much.
Idalia Michael
