Literary Analysis of Oneself

[LiddyRules]

We've all taken classes where we have to do the critical analysis of a character in a play or book or film or whatever. It's not strictly a psychological approach to a person but psychology has a part in the overall analysis in understanding the person, their motivations, who they are, etc.

Does anyone do that with themselves or the people around them? Not try to analyze yourself (or, for example, one's parents which gets into all sorts of creepiness trust me) as a person but to view the subject(s) as a character in a novel?

[Friday]

i act so that i do not feel compelled to do this.

[DarkHippie]

The whole world is a novel. All of existence is fiction.

So yes.

[keithy_19]

The whole world is a novel. All of existence is fiction.

So yes.

The ironic thing is, we read books that are fiction, and yet they really are just describing real events that someone somewhere felt and witnessed at one point in their existence. Even the ficition is non fiction in theory.

But I'm pretty gone right now, so that might not make sense when I read it again later.

[thepaulo]

what can i say....
your life is a movie

[DarkHippie]

The ironic thing is, we read books that are fiction, and yet they really are just describing real events that someone somewhere felt and witnessed at one point in their existence. Even the ficition is non fiction in theory.

But I'm pretty gone right now, so that might not make sense when I read it again later.

I think its the opposite in that all non-fiction is fiction. All of what you perceive is filtered through your own point of view--your experiences, beliefs, heartaches, etc. So what you see is not what I see, and both of us are wrong. We think that its true, but its just a story. All the world's a stage . . .

[Furtherman]

All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again.

[DarkHippie]

All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again.

Borges said that there are only seven stories in the world and everything else is just a variation.

I forget who it was but that person said there are two: a stranger comes to town, and a person goes on a journey.

[Hottub]

Borges said that there are only seven stories in the world and everything else is just a variation.

I forget who it was but that person said there are two: a stranger comes to town, and a person goes on a journey.

If you read Penthouse forum, Hippie is pretty much on the money.

[thejives]

Oh, I look around this board and all I see are character archetypes.

With women, there are the temptresses, the virgins, the allmothers

With men, there are the hermits, the hermits, the hermits, the people typing messages between batches, and the hermits.

It's like the old men in the sea ... and Friday and Reilly.

[Recyclerz]

I would prefer not to.

[drjoek]

Im not smart enough to post in this thread


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