Psychoanalyze This! (Yet Another Forum Game!)

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Welcome to another WrongPlanet.net community game by Néant Humain!

In this game, the goal is to give humorous analyzes of people's actions, thoughts, and feelings.

Example:

To start, I will provide an action someone will analyze:

I really like chocolate.

If you really like chocolate, then you may have a serotonin deficiency.

Wow, is that true? Does that hold for all sugary foods? I'm a real sugar junkie. By the way, you didn't provide anything for me to analyze.

Blues better then red.

If you bite your fingernails it is because you smell.

By feeding yourself dead fingernails means you're low on protein, and that can cause an unsightly stench.

This web site is great for clinical info on surgar and serotonin.

http://www.radiantrecovery.com

Analysis:

Stop running with the flock, go to http://www.mandriva.com or http://www.redhat.com and sort yourself out some individuality. Don't think about Monsters - that is Delusional, just be yourself. If you really are Narcissistic, get a career in Politics - you'll go far and maybe end up running the Whole World.

Also: get a Cat, they're so Baby.

OK, something "fun" for you to analyze (as in, it's fantastically neurotic/anal), which is actually true about me but which I understand the "real" resons for anyway:

All of the clocks in my house are accurate, BUT the alarm clock in my bedroom is 30 minutes ahead. Additionally, I always wear a watch- WITH an alarm- and there is at least one clock in every room of my apartment. In the kicthen, there's two, a wall clock and the microwave.

I have a measure of cynicism about 'psychoanalytic theory', since it is so symbolic and loaded with metaphors, that you can make of it almost anything you want to.

That makes sense: 30 minutes ahead means you get that precious 1/2 hour lie-in each morning. It is a ruse, a clever plan, but it certainly makes getting up more bearable.

If I ever make an appointment on time, then it will only be on the basis of having twice as many clocks as you have mentioned.

I really need to set a fixed routine and use alarm clocks for everything too.

Somehow it seems I never make the directions for these creative games clear enough. I was hoping people would analyze a thought, feeling, or action someone else made for humorous effect. They would then supply an action, thought, or feeling that someone else would analyze.

That's the exact point of this game! It's supposed to be a parody of psychoanalysis.

No one's really understood how this game is supposed to work, so let's just turn this into a random discussion thread and make a new one for the actual game, I guess.

For once I actually understood your directions. How can you misunderstand something so simple?! Awesome game idea, to bad it didn't work out.

I understood it; hence why I gave an example I saw as "easy" to rip apart with jargon and ridiculous theories. Logically I know that it's convenient for me to have a clock in every room, and I set the clock ahead years ago to gain extra time and now just can't set it back or I'll be 1/2 hour late for everything. But I figured you'd be able to do something with me associating the clocks with father time and thus having an electra complex.

As is the nature of the "analytical" nature of psychoanalytic interpretation, there is always room for more than one 'meaning'.

Reference to manipulating Chronos (the Father of Time), could also be a subconscious reference to latent Narcissistic Personality Traits - the fear of Growing Old!

So you see, there are multiple interpretations possible with a wholly unscientific 'theretical' framework {smile}

You all still aren't playing the game, just discussing it.

I find it necessary to answer my cats' random meows and mumblings every single time with "What?" despite that I truly expect no answer.

Doc... What's WRONG with me???