I just read your meme-ful post and your classes sound awesome! Madness & Society and Religion & Folklore. You can totally do fanfic as a paper for the latter class. ;)
The good thing about comic book characters is that we have a nice detailed history complete with their thoughts! There's a terrific diagnosis of Magneto here if you haven't seen it.
Hee! Of course, with Clark - do human psychiatric diagnoses even apply to someone who is biologically alien and may have a radically different brain chemistry? Or does being raised human make a significant difference?
That's a really good question. There's certainly something alien in how obsessively deeply he feels emotions such as romantic and familial love (see: your Biopsychology fics) and also in his earnestness. Is that nature or nurture? We could argue both. ;)
Rogue also has the added problem of voices in her head-in this case, *real* voices, so they can't be medicated away. Would you classify her as having OCD as well, since she has a terror of touching people, even when it's safe?
Clark=anal. *nods*
Remy-kleptomaniac? He does come from a family of thieves. :)
Bruce, ftw! *rotfl*
yes, I agree-once you start really examining comic characters, they're a lot more complex than it might seem. Angst Ahoy!
OCD is more impossible-to-ignore thoughts which may be tied to an action to remove those thoughts. eg) Thinking germs are everywhere but washing your hands 10 times in a specific manner will get rid of them. In Rogue's case, she has a basis for her fear. Off the top of my head, I would say her condition is more post-traumatic stress disorder. By rejecting touch, she's removing herself from the trigger.
I've always thought Rogue was sexually abused as a child. Not many people like to talk about it, but it happens to like 1 out of 5 children so I figure at least ONE of our heroes has to have been a victim. And it makes sense when you look at her adult personality
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Re: possibly...xenokattzDecember 1 2008, 03:51:48 UTC
I also read somewhere (wish I had a bloody link) that many mutants got their particular powers by some anxiety they had in prepubescence -- You're right; I remember that theory being very prominent in the mid-90's among ficcers for the exact same reasons you've named. The one thing I've always wondered though is how does this affect people like Scott, Remy and Hanks whose mutations have (as far as we can tell) very little historical psychological connections?
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Totally agreed, though, about Bruce. And Lois. *snorfle*
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You're so good to me. *Big Damn Grin*
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Hmmmmm.... Enquiring minds want to know :P
Agreement on all acounts :)
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Clark=anal. *nods*
Remy-kleptomaniac? He does come from a family of thieves. :)
Bruce, ftw! *rotfl*
yes, I agree-once you start really examining comic characters, they're a lot more complex than it might seem. Angst Ahoy!
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-- You're right; I remember that theory being very prominent in the mid-90's among ficcers for the exact same reasons you've named. The one thing I've always wondered though is how does this affect people like Scott, Remy and Hanks whose mutations have (as far as we can tell) very little historical psychological connections?
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