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ABSTRACT
Freudster is a textual analysis system that explores how Freud's theories might be understood by the millions of people presenting themselves via text & images on MySpace. The application browses MySpace user profiles, and progressively pairs them with paragraphs from the Sigmund Freud essay "Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex." The program measures the "Flesch Index" (reading level) of the MySpace user's "About Me:" description and then rewrites Freud's prose to match that user's level. As if they were collectively reading Freud's essay, these reworked paragraphs then animate word by word to form low resolution images of each MySpace user.
SYSTEM
A multi-threaded Java Application spiders through MySpace profiles parsing the profile pages for About Me descriptions. When an About Me text of sufficient length is found, the application uses Flesch's algorithm to gauge the reading level of that user's writing. Simultaneously, the program loads in a section of Freud's essay and gauges its Flesch Index. Through synonym replacement of multisyllable words, the reading level of the Freud paragraph is then adjusted to match the user "reading" that portion of the psychoanalyst's essay. Other stylistic flourishes such as the profile’s use of capitalization, emoticons, and key phrases also appear in the recombined Freud paragraphs. Finally, the application imports the MySpace user's image and converts its pixels into characters from the text.
EXAMPLE VIDEO
Click to view demo video of Freudster running.
SAMPLE OUTPUT
| Freud Passage rewritten based on MySpace User's About Me Text | ||
WTF DIG OUTS THE SYMPTOMS OF MIRTH ON THE THESIS THAT THEY ARE THE PROXYS THE DITTOS AS IT WERE FOR A SERIES OF WTF OMG PSYCHIC MOOD, WISHES, AND PASSIONS, TO WHICH A PASSAGE FOR THEIR DISCHARGE THROUGH THE CONSCIOUS PSYCHIC OMG HAS BEEN CUT OFF BY A SPECIAL PROCESS MANIA. THESE THOUGHT MAKEUPS WHICH ARE STEADY IN THE STATE OF THE STONED STRIVE FOR SET PHRASE, THAT IS, FOR DISCHARGE, IN OBEDIENCE TO THEIR SAD VALUE, AND FIND SUCH IN MADNESS THROUGH A PROCESS OF GROWTH INTO TANGIBLE WTF THE WORKED UP SYMPTOMS. IF, LEGE ARTIS, AND WITH THE AID OF A SPECIAL TECHNIQUE, BASE CHANGEOVERS OF THE SYMPTOMS INTO THE LOL AND CONSCIOUS THOUGHTS CAN BE THOROUGH, IT THEN TURN OUTS POSSIBLE TO GET THE MOST PROPER THE LATEST ABOUT THE NATURE AND ROOTS Of THESE ONCE OUT PSYCHIC GROUPINGS. RESULTS OF OMG IN THIS MANNER IT HAS BEEN BARE THAT THE SYMPTOMS EXPRESS THE EVEN FOR THE STRIVINGS WHICH IN THEIR STRENGTH FROM THE SOURCE OF THE SEXUAL IMPULSE. THIS FULLY CONCURS WITH WHAT WE KNOW OF THE BADGE OF PANIC, WHICH WE HAVE TAKEN AS MODELS FOR ALL PSYCHO DEVIANTS, BEFORE THEY HAVE BECOME INFIRM, AND WITH WHAT WE KNOW TOUCHING THE CAUSES OF THE DISEASE. THE DISTRAUGHT MORALE WARRANTS A PART OF SEXUAL MANIA WHICH REACHES BEYOND THE NORMAL LIMITS, AN CROCK OF THE ATTRITIONS AGAINST THE SEXUAL IMPULSE WHICH WE KNOW AS SHAME AND LOATHING. IT IS AN INBORN FLIGHT FROM SUBJECTIVE EMPLOYMENT WITH THE SEXUAL PROBLEM, THE END OF WHICH IN MARKED CASES IS A COMPLETE SEXUAL RAWNESS, WHICH IS HOME FREE TILL THE AGE OF SEXUAL WOMANHOOD IS DONE. |
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| Original Freud Passage | MySpace User's About Me Text | |
| Freud's Original Flesch Index: 20.9 Psychoanalysis removes the symptoms of hysteria on the supposition that they are the substitutes - the transcriptions as it were - for a series of emotionally accentuated psychic processes, wishes, and desires, to which a passage for their discharge through the conscious psychic activities has been cut off by a special process (repression). These thought formations which are restrained in the state of the unconscious strive for expression, that is, for discharge, in conformity to their affective value, and find such in hysteria through a process of conversion into somatic phenomena - the hysterical symptoms. If, lege artis, and with the aid of a special technique, retrogressive transformations of the symptoms into the affectful and conscious thoughts can be effected, it then becomes possible to get the most accurate information about the nature and origin of these previously unconscious psychic formations. Results of Psychoanalysis - In this manner it has been discovered that the symptoms represent the equivalent for the strivings which received their strength from the source of the sexual impulse. This fully concurs with what we know of the character of hysterics, which we have taken as models for all psycho-neurotics, before they have become diseased, and with what we know concerning the causes of the disease. The hysterical character evinces a part of sexual repression which reaches beyond the normal limits, an exaggeration of the resistances against the sexual impulse which we know as shame and loathing. It is an instinctive flight from intellectual occupation with the sexual problem, the consequence of which in pronounced cases is a complete sexual ignorance, which is preserved till the age of sexual maturity is attained. |
User's Flesch Index: 92.9 YO WUTS POPPIN?? MY NAME IS [username omitted ] BUT ALL MY FRIENDS NO ME AS *****...IM A SENIOR AT NFA..CLASS OF 06...I WAS BORN IN NORTH CAROLINA BUT UNFORUNITLY I HAD TO MOVE TO CONNECTICUT WHEN I WAS LIKE EIGHT...WHICH SUXED!!...NE WAY I TOTALLY LOVE JENNA JAMESON...I AINT GAY((I LOVE DICK ONLY!!!!))..BUT SHE IS SO FUCKIN HOTT!!!!! I LOVE VIDEO GAMES, PLAYIN ON THE COMPUTER, LISTENING TO MUSIC, I REALLY LOVE MY CELL IT ACTUALLY NEVA LEAVES MY SIDE..LOL....I LOVE CHILLIN WIT MY GIIRLS ****, ****, **** AND HANGIN WIT MY FELLAS...MY FAMILY & FRIENDS MEAN TOTALLY EVERYTHING TO ME AND TO A FEW CERTAIN PEOPLE HERE IS A LIL MESSAGE FOR YA:....((TO MY COUSIN *****)), YOU HAVE ONLY BEEN GONE A LIL LESS THAN 7 MONTHS AND AS EVERYDAY PASSES I STILL CANT BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE GONE BUT I NO THAT YOU ARE IN A MUCH BETTER PLACE WITH THE LORD BUT I STILL MISS YOU..I LOVE YOU RIP.....((TO ****))...I DONT EVEN NO WUT TO SAY....YOU ARE MY BEST FRIEND AND WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH SO FUCKIN MUCH!! BUT I STILL CANT BELIEVE THAT U BEAT ME IN MY OWN FUCKIN VIDEO GAMES..THATS SUM SAD SHYT!!.LOL....I LOVE YOU......((TO ****)) YOU ARE MY BEST FRIEND AND THAT WILL NEVA CHANGE!! YOU ARE GREATEST CHICK IN THE WORLD AND I LOVE YOU TO PIECES..EVERYTIME THAT WE HANG OUT ALL WE DO IS LAUGH AT DUMB ASS SHYT...AND I REALLY CANT BELIEVE THAT WE BOTH HAVE JOBS!!! IT SEEMS TO FUNNII..I LOVE YA....((TO COUSIN ********))..EVEN THOUGH I AM KINDA A BITCH TO YOU SOMETIMES..I JUST WANTED TO TELL YOU THAT I LOVE U MORE THAN NE BODY IN THE HOLE WORLD..AND IT IS NICE TO SEE YOU HAPPY WIT JOHN...AND IT SUXS THAT I DONT GET TO SEE YOU THAT MUCH NO MORE BUT SOONER OR LATER THAT WILL CHANGE..HOPEFULLY..I LOVE YOU LOTS.....((TO *****))...YOU ARE JUS FUCKIN CRAZII BUT THAT IS HALF THE REASON Y I LOVE YA SO FUCKIN MUCH..YOU ALWAYS SEEM TO MAKE ME SMILE EVEN WHEN IM SAD AND THAT IS THE BEST PART!!..ART CLASS IS SO MUCH FUN WHEN UR THERE!!..LUV YA...AND FINALLY ((TO ****** AKA GIMP))..DONT THINK THAT I FORGOT YOU..CUZ THAT WILL NEVA HAPPEN!!! YOU ARE SO FUNNI..AND SUM OF THE SHYT U TELL ME HAS ME DYIN..I TOTALLY LOVE HELPIN U TRY AN LAND UR MAN SUM WAY..LOL..LOVE YA.. |
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RELEVANT BLOG LINKS & DOCUMENTATION
http://itp.nyu.edu/~rcc273/blog/?p=53
http://itp.nyu.edu/~rcc273/blog/?p=44
http://itp.nyu.edu/~rcc273/a2z/midterm/
SPECIAL THANKS TO