Mini-Analysis, Rhetoric and Popular Culture Comm Course. 900-1000 words, APA 7 format, no abstract, 40 points total.
Method: Psychoanalysis from Brummett, B. (2018). Rhetoric in Popular Culture (5th ed.). Text: Adolescence (Netflix, 2025).
Argument: Adolescence uses psychoanalytic structures repression, desire, and fractured identity to construct a portrait of a boy whose psychic collapse is engineered not by individual pathology but by the ideological conditions of online radicalization and familial disconnection, revealing how popular culture can make visible the unconscious forces that produce real-world violence.
Rubric breakdown: Thesis (10 pts) must include interpretation, judgment, and implications. Evidence (15 pts) specific quotes and paraphrases from the show, properly cited. Use of Concepts (10 pts) method must be identified, justified, defined, and applied. Writing and Formatting (5 pts) APA format, clear structure, no errors.
Outline: Introduction establishes Adolescence as the text and Psychoanalysis as the critical lens, positions the writer as the critic applying Brummett’s framework, and closes with a thesis about repression, desire, and identity. Body paragraph 1 defines key psychoanalytic concepts from Brummett and justifies why this method fits the text. Body paragraph 2 analyzes a specific moment where Jamie’s repression and desire are made visible. Body paragraph 3 analyzes how the show constructs Jamie’s fractured identity through family and online ideology. Conclusion synthesizes the argument and extends implications outward, what does this reading reveal about male identity, radicalization, and the role of popular culture in making unconscious social forces visible?
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