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Darth Vader Was Mentally Ill, Researchers Say
ABC NEWS ^ | 6/10/2010 | ABC News

Posted on 06/10/2010 4:24:55 AM PDT by Dallas59



Don't blame it on the Dark Side. Anakin Skywalker's epic transformation into the evil Darth Vader may have been a result of mental illness, according to a group of French psychiatrists and psychologists. New Study Labels Darth Vader With Borderline Personality Disorder.

In a paper published in the journal Psychiatry Research, Eric Bui and his colleagues at Toulouse University Hospital have given new meaning to the term "Jedi mind tricks" with their psychoanalysis of why the tragic "Star Wars" hero fell from Jedi grace. Apparently, he had borderline

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1 posted on 06/10/2010 4:24:55 AM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Dallas59

..we knew that....

2 posted on 06/10/2010 4:28:45 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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To: Dallas59
As he came of age, Skywalker showed problems with impulsivity, violent outburst, illusions of invincibility and crises of identity, all of which are in line with borderline personality disorder diagnosis, the researchers concluded.

The absence of a father and early separation from his mother set the stage for his later developmental issues, the authors noted, and violent, dissociative events, such as when he kills a tribe of Tuskans in blind revenge, precipitated his turn to the Dark Side.

Stupid, wussy analysis like this is why the French keep getting their asses kicked in every war...

3 posted on 06/10/2010 4:28:55 AM PDT by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: Dallas59

It could only be a government sponsored study that would even bother with psycho analyzing a fictional character...


4 posted on 06/10/2010 4:30:55 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Dallas59

“I find their lack of belief...disturbing.”


5 posted on 06/10/2010 4:33:41 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

So,,,,Vader just needed some Prozac,,


6 posted on 06/10/2010 4:33:41 AM PDT by CharlotteVRWC
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To: Dallas59

Who did they get their funding from - The SyFy Channel?


7 posted on 06/10/2010 4:33:52 AM PDT by libertarian27 (Ingsoc: Department of Life, Department of Liberty, Department of Happiness)
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To: Dallas59

He was a complex man with a soft side as well...

8 posted on 06/10/2010 4:35:50 AM PDT by usmcobra (Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
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To: CharlotteVRWC

or lots of hugs.


9 posted on 06/10/2010 4:36:05 AM PDT by Mercat
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To: Dallas59; Slings and Arrows

I’d challenge anyone to get burned up in a river of lava after getting dismembered by a lightsaber and having the strength to carry on afterward. I’m sure such a thing can’t be mentally healthy either.


10 posted on 06/10/2010 4:37:36 AM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Dallas59

Liberals don’t like the concept of evil, because they believe that socialism will solve the ills of human society.


11 posted on 06/10/2010 4:40:11 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: libertarian27
Who did they get their funding from

Stimulus money.

12 posted on 06/10/2010 4:40:14 AM PDT by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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To: Doogle
"Oh how horrid!"


13 posted on 06/10/2010 4:41:03 AM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
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To: CharlotteVRWC
Actually, I would hold off on the meds and suggest group therapy, with maybe some one-on-one counseling. Then, after a few months, re-evaluate his mental status.

Of course, I wouldn't rule out a little electro-shock therapy. Nothing like a good zap to get one's mind back in focus!

14 posted on 06/10/2010 4:44:37 AM PDT by unbiasedtruth
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To: Dallas59

They are reading way too much into a fictional character in a script written by a man who has very little conception of continuity, believable dialogue or logical plotlines....


15 posted on 06/10/2010 4:44:47 AM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: Dallas59

I would just mention to the French that the inability to determine what’s reality and what’s fiction is a pretty serious mental disability too.


16 posted on 06/10/2010 4:45:08 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop thinking about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Dallas59

I would just mention to the French that the inability to determine what’s reality and what’s fiction is a pretty serious mental disability too.


17 posted on 06/10/2010 4:45:41 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop thinking about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Dallas59

18 posted on 06/10/2010 4:46:41 AM PDT by Jonah Hex ("Never underestimate the hungover side of the Force.")
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To: KoRn

19 posted on 06/10/2010 4:48:16 AM PDT by Jonah Hex ("Never underestimate the hungover side of the Force.")
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To: Dallas59

The socialistic French, who are responsible for the secularization of Europe, are just the right group to propose this kind of nonsense. Ignoring, in their deliberate deconstructionist way, the intent of comic book good v. evil, they plod on psychoanalyzing behavior as if anyone really cares. Yet there is always the American acolyte who sees his opportunity to get his 15 minutes on the tail of his French counterpart as does this fellow Bender in the article. Sure he doesn’t buy the French mental schtick about Darth Vader but he does think that the film character may have a personality disorder. Good grief, this is a fictional movie character not one from Shakespeare. The only reason that this film gets such credibility is that, in my opinion, the mythologist, Joseph Campbell made such a big deal about it in one of his books. Of course, using movie characters immediately makes your analysis outdated because the shelf life of their impact is less than a year. Anyhow, the French, according to a book I just read with the eponymous title, are “Our Oldest Enemy”. Best to remember that in every circumstance.


20 posted on 06/10/2010 4:55:39 AM PDT by sueuprising
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