The Breakfast Club-An Exercise in Psychoanalysis

The Breakfast Club is director John Hughes' 1985 fable of five high school stereotypes brought together for a Saturday of detention. Trapped in the Shermer High School library for nine hours, Claire, Brian, Andy, Bender and Allison eventually stop arguing long enough to discover some compelling truths about themselves and their world.

After viewing John Hughes's 1985 classic The Breakfast Club, create a string of responses in which you psychoanalyze the characters.

Questions to consider:

-What personality traits/disorders (this distinction is worthy as well) do the characters exhibit? (Psychology Today article)
-What are the roots of these traits/disorders?
-Are any of these characters struggling with the "Developmental Tasks of Adolescence" that relate to self or others? (Psychology text pgs. 150-157)
-What defense mechanisms, as defined by Freud, do the characters in the film exhibit? (Psychology text pgs. 187-191)
-How might Freud approach psychotherapy with one of these characters? (Psychology text pgs. 194-196) How might a behaviorist approach the same character differently? (Psychology text pgs. 204-207)

Minimum 3 posts (more encouraged!).
Agree, disagree, expand, explore, question, digress-YOU control the direction of the discussion.
Avoid repetition. If you agree, say so and move on.
Soft cap-150 words.
Mandatory use of acquired knowledge-no armchair psychology-use what you've learned.