"I, Freudius"

From: Russell A. Cardwell (wbroadwy@SWBELL.NET)

Putting Freud and Berne into Dramatica, and spitting out a Subjective Story Character Report, it gave me this:

. . . To start with, Sigmund Freud is primarily Concerned with a fixed attitude in regard to The Subconscious, while Eric Berne's chief Concern is a situation of The Future. Clearly, they are not concerned with the same things.

Sigmund Freud evaluates The Subconscious in terms of Dream and Hope. In contrast, Eric Berne measures his concern with The Future by how it relates to Choice and Delay.

If they were to argue, Sigmund Freud might say, "We must not be driven because of our Dream." To which Eric Berne might respond, "No, we must focus on what will happen or be because of Choice." . . .

Of course, many other arguments will occur between Sigmund Freud and Eric Berne involving not only Dream vs. Choice but Hope vs. Delay as well. And, they will argue as to whether The Subconscious or The Future is of more concern. . . .

In summary, Sigmund Freud and Eric Berne fail to see eye to eye. While Sigmund Freud is concerned with a fixed attitude in regard to The Subconscious, Eric Berne's chief concern is a situation of The Future. Sigmund Freud looks at The Subconscious as it relates to Dream and Hope, but Eric Berne is more interested in how The Future relates to Choice and Delay. Each strives to press their point home: Sigmund Freud bolstered by his abilities involving Denial (though held back by Responsibility), and Eric Berne relying on his strengths in regard to Preconception (though he too is held back, undermined by Morality). When the smoke clears, success has been achieved in the objective story, but Sigmund Freud has failed to resolve his personal problems.

* * *

While it's certainly no definitive analysis, it's quite impressive output for a computer program. Amusing, at least. It would be interesting to put people you know into this thing and see what it says.

Index of Dramatica Theory Materials

Storymind.com is pleased to present this collection of materials about the Dramatica Theory of Story. We hope you find it both useful and through-provoking.

This information is divided into three sections:

The Dramatica Theory
A complete exploration of the theory in every detail

Historic Documents
The development of Dramatica from the beginning

Speculations
Dramatica applied to psychology, physics, religion and more

The Dramatica Theory

Dramatica Theory Book Online
Free online edition of the 400+ page book, Dramatica: A New theory of Story, in which Melanie Anne Phillips & Chris Huntley originally documented their work.

Dramatica Dictionary
Official definitions of all terms in the Dramatica theory and software.

Dramatica Writing Tips
Useful and informative articles on how to approach and employ both the Dramatica Theory and Software.

Constructive Criticisms
Practical illustrations of how applying the Dramatica theory could have made some well-known successful story's even better!

Dramatica Q & A
Answers to questions from users of the Dramatica Theory and Software.

Instant Dramatica
Even more directly practical essays on using Dramatica for real-world writing situations and problems provided by noted screenwriter Armando Saldaņa Mora.

Historic Documents

Dramatica - The Lost Theory Book
Early attempts to document the theory, including many unfinished conjectures and false starts.

Dramatica Development Archives
Early documents created during the development of the foundations of Dramatica.  Often later discarded, they show the roots of the thinking that ultimately evolved into the theory as it stands today.

Speculations

Deep Theory
Transcript of a class on the outer fringes of Dramatica Theory I taught as part of a now-defunct Dramatica Certification course.

Dramatica Math
A mathematician takes a stab at describing the Dramatica model in terms of dimensional distortions.

Mental Relativity
An exploration of the theory of psychology modeling which grew out of the development of Dramatica.

Dramatica I Ching
Several of our users have noticed a similarity between the character grid in Dramatica and the elements of the traditional I Ching.  Though unintentional, perhaps all models that look deeply into the mind will resemble each other.

Our Most Popular Products

StoryWeaver Story Development Software

By far, our most popular product, outselling all of our other products combined!  StoryWeaver takes you step by step through the entire process--from initial inspiration to completed novel or screenplay.  At just $29.95, StoryWeaver is affordable for any writer.  (Details)


Movie Magic Screenwriter

is one of two industry standard word processing screenplay formatters, the other being Final Draft.  Each of these programs offers a complete suite of screenwriting tools to make your next script a breeze to write.  (Details) 


Dramatica Pro

Unlike any other story development product, Dramatica Pro uses a patented Story Engine to interactively help you build a structure, find and fix dramatica holes and inconsistencies.  (Details)


20 Hour Writing Course on CD ROM

This intense program features 20 hours of video documenting the entire college-level course in creative writing given by Melanie Anne Phillips, creator of StoryWeaver and co-creator of Dramatica.  Just $19.95  (Details)

More

 
  Dramatica Home Page