Psychoanalysis help - for my novel - character back story

anybody?

Overtrusting, can happen when someone is very insecure. In the process of seeking security from the outside, presumes that people are the same and gives security to them, thus trusting them way too much. Insecure, like, always feeling that he/she will never have friends in life, nobody cares about him/her. A family problem that diverts attention from the child during his childhood and concentrates on another member of the family, may be say a handicapped brother, etc.

Marcy, better yet would be a dead mother and an ignoring father. Mother died during her latter teens. Father ignored her and kept doing his own stuff, he may not necessarily be a abusive OR promiscuous man with many relationships after her mother died. The reason being that she hasn't gotten closure yet over her mother's death. Everytime her mind is kinda inactive she keeps going back to the memories of her mother.

Jimmy, I don't really see the necessity for you to do that. A person can be self sacrificingly heroic just like that - no real childhood reasons necessary.

Gordon: see Jason Priestley movie called Coldblooded.

About others, I'll try and think nothing directly around right now.

[url]http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/compulsive-sexual-behavior/DS00144[/url]

The mayo clinic on compulsive sexual behavior. Pretty thorough, and I think you're already imbuing her with some of these characteristics.

Assigned...I like the Auschwitz idea, only because Hitler had so many insane experiments going on at any one time. Who's to say he didn't develop a supercomputer that somehow got entangled with artifacts he recovered in Africa?

Jugal - thanks a lot for taking the time to stop in and post up some thoughts. Some great ideas that I'm going to mull over, and see how to work into what I already have going, which is about 26,000 words.

Monkey - that's a great link, I'll have to float around there a bit. thanks as always for taking a moment to help out, you always do

much appreciation guys

To me, Gordan sounds a lot like Richard Kuklinski - The Ice Man. He got his nickname because of how cold and organized a killer he was. He was a serial killer who found work as a hitman for the mafia. The perfect job, eh?

Google him and you'll find all sorts of things about him. He is in prison now, and he has been interviewed and studied quite a few times. You should get some good ideas from him.

I'll have to think a bit more about the other characters.

thanks LC, i'll check into that, appreciate the input

Hey dude, sounds like you have an interesting crew here. Here are a few ideas I had when reading them:

Jacob: As far as over-trusting goes it seems to me a person can only be burned so many times before at least being somewhat weary. This may just be my own preconcieved cynicalism though. But if i was reading it I think a secluded person might be more over-trusting and naive, i.e. private school, couldn't watch TV., mother never let him out kinda thing. Maybe not to that extreme but you see the idea. Maybe just overly idealistic parents might work too.

Marcy sounds good and I think Jugal and Monkey's ideas were good.

Jimmy: Jugal's right, it's not necessary to have his past, but if you want something or it's important to the story you have a good basic idea. Alternatively he could have seen his brother or someone die and someone nearby wouldn't help because it was a dangerous situation, so now he's self-sacrificing because he knows what it's like to need help and have people just look on because the problem's too 'big' or 'dangerous'
Or perhaps he just blames himself for something that wasn't his fault.

X: If you've read The Watchmen by Alan Moore this will make sense. Ozymandais reminds me a lot of this character. The villain trying to save the world. If you haven't read it pm me and I'll give you a basic description of the storyline.
What you have for him so far is fine, as a alternate you can throw around the idea that while he tells everyone that he was picked on and humiliated as a kid, in fact he was revered by friends and family who unknowingly fed into his narcissim turning him into an ego maniac who believes he is doing the right thing always. It all depends on how you want to deal with X though. Do you want us to love him? Hate him? Sympathize with him? Trick us into sympathizing?

Gordon: Again, it kind of depends on how you want us to view him. If he's a good guy the batman complex is a great way to mix sympathy with revulsion depending on how you write it. Other options are sociopathic if he's a villain, or perhaps he's so fed up with humanity's evil that he has just given up morally, he tried to do the right thing for too long now he no longer cares.

Assigned: I like this idea. Good link from Monkey. Again, everything depends on how you want us to view the story. If X ends up being a bad guy, or even if not you can have Assigned be made from one of X's 'deeds' It could be unknowingly or not. A well meant accident, or a genocide of 'evil' people. But I also really like Monkey's idea.

Roland: pretty standard and solid idea. Don't think there's much you could change except perhaps doing something to try and catch his mother's attention. This could be anything from trying to save the world to holding a hostage on live TV.

Oh, one last note: Be careful if Marcy is your only female character. Having the only woman be a nympho could be seen as masogonistic or simply unrealistic. I probably wouldn't have noticed it if I were reading the story as a whole but it's worth keeping an eye on it.

Hope this helped and good luck!
-justin