The Subconscious Psychopath in American Psycho

"You are a bad thing or are you doing something?" (Easton Ellis). Whether our actions and ideas are regarded as evil. If we constantly think about evil and frightening thoughts, but do not act against it, the first thought may still affect our unconscious thinking, which in turn is indirectly It affects our conscious thoughts and actions. In contrast, those who take actions based on their evil ideas are therefore more realistic for their natural and unaffected personality. Humans are closely related to the brothers of our barbarian animals, but we are making every effort to make ourselves look different.

When we think of the term "psychotic patient", what is usually considered is the type of caricature that crazy killer media depiction, "psychology", "silent lamb", and "Texas chainsaw" massacre. However, these explanations are far from real mentally disabled people. First of all, most people with mental illness are not murderers. This is good news. The bad news is that this truth makes it harder to find psychiatric patients in the crowd than you think. (Hint: He may not be a man with crazy eyes wearing a black trench coat walking on an abandoned street.) According to a survey, 1% of the population meets the criteria for mental illness. This may not sound so much, which means that one out of every 100 people is a mentally disabled person. This may include your neighbors, your colleagues, your friends, and even your favorite bloggers. Perhaps someone is sitting next to you when reading this article.

If you watch a movie like American Psycho or read a movie like John Wayne Gacy, everyone with mental disability may put some text in the closet. However, some people may be caught up in white-collar crime rather than violent behavior. That is, they are more likely to be fooled by them rather than being physically hurt. Many offenders commit crimes because of drug addiction and childhood violence, but for those with mental disorders, this impulse is mainly due to disconnection from society. The wild rabbit writes: "Crime is not a result of a poor social situation, it is a personality structure that does not refer to social rules or regulations."

Both rendezvous and American psycho have antiheroes - self-narcissistic psychiatric patients, do they have more in common? Are these two anti heroes comparable? American Psycho is a psychological thriller with irony, black comedy and horror. Rendezvous is a psychological short story. Mental illness in America was held in New York in the mid 80's. Patrick Bateman is a hero, a young and beautiful man working at an investment company called Pierce and Pierce. He spent his free time in a wealthy friend and colleague of the yuppie class.