The Dark Knight is a 2008 film based on the Dc Comics character Batman and his struggle and journey in combating the most demented villain ever, The Joker. The Joker is a psychopathic, mass murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy. Due to The Joker’s insane nature, it is appropriate to use Dr. Sigmund Freud’s method of Psychoanalysis to better understand why The Joker is the way he is.
What is psychoanalysis? Psychoanalysis is a form of treatment invented by Sigmund Freud that usually focuses on the early years of the patient’s life and his/her relationship with immediate family members. A wise man once said, “There are four questions that every good student of psychology will ask about a personality theory. The first question
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The third question is can the personality change over time. According to Freud personality development is to be seen as psychosexual stages (Hergenhahn). In The Dark Knight The Joker’s constant twitching and licking of his lips are both evidence of an oral fixation. Freud would probably diagnose The Joker as an oral –sadistic character (Hergenhahn), and would want to speak with his mother to see what happened to him during the oral stage, which are the first years of life. In the second narration of the origins of his scars, The Joker tells Rachel that he once had a wife that was cut up by mobsters and that in an effort to make her feel better, he carves his own face and was devastated when she leaves him. If we believe this version of the story, then his anger from his father is compounded when he is rejected by his wife (Psychoanalysis of The Joker). This is again an example of selective memory, a defense mechanism.
The fourth question asks why there are differences between The Joker and the rest of us. “Freud would argue that different people develop in differing environments and had different childhood experiences” (Psychoanalysis of The Joker). The reason The Joker is different from all of us is his complicated past. Due to unknown childhood experiences, he never developed a superego.
Due to The Joker’s traumatic conflicts that he was unable to resolve in
In the view of author Kevin Mahadeo, one of the most insane tricks the Joker had pulled was when he had captured members of the Bat-Family and had Alfred serve them up some platters topped with their faces which he had cut off. (Mahadeo) This is a representation of how truly insane and twisted the Joker was. Although the joker was quite insane, some people have learned to love his evil ways because of how clever and inventive he was while he came up with tricks. Despite the Jokers insane tricks, his trickery is shown throughout today’s culture because of how thought out and clever he can
These relationships with characters such as Joker, Robin and Barbara Gordon have evolved throughout the story as Batman character changes while revealing many psychological phenomena that can also be seen in human interaction. The movie shows what a persons behavior would most likely be like if they experienced that type of traumatic experience and how it would affect how they deal with their future
The Joker has many unsettling characteristics about him. Such as his impulsivity, lack of remorse, and insanity. He is extremely out of touch with reality, after an accident in his early life, he totally lost his mind. He has no sense if reality, or remorse, making him a great fit for a supervillain. He had no clear reason to why he wants to cause chaos, no issues with anyone in Gotham, no grudge against anyone, he simply does it for
We get our values through subjective truths that can never stand the test of time because of our variable nature (. However, this truth is what makes our values systems and, hence, defines our actions over time. So, essentially, our values, which define our actions, can be variable, but we are punished on a single set of ‘supreme’ values. This is the internal contradiction that the Joker targets throughout ‘The Dark
He loved what the Joker did in the movie by tormenting and killing others. The Joker was always recognized as the smartest villain because he always had boobie traps and poison gas in his arsenal when it came to weaken and slow down Batman. However, James took what he seen during the movie and see if he imitates the Joker's mentality. By the end of the film, Holmes had his hair dyed red like how the Joker's hair was and wore a gas mask like what Joker wore when he tends to poison his victims with gas and he began to shoot at everyone in the movie theater. When the police arrested him and did investigation, Holmes claimed himself to be the Joker and that he had a mental
The Joker, is a purposeless criminal. He will destroy anything, or anyone who gets in his way, just to accomplish his goal, to break Batman's personal rules, to never kill or harm anyone, but to save Gotham City from danger and
Batman is the fictional character that is either loved or hated. In Andy Medhurt’s essay “Batman, Deviance, and Camp” he argues that Batman is interesting for “gay” audiences. On the Contrary, I believe Batman is heterosexual. Batman should not be judged on cherry picked images, women distract batman, and the Joker’s words cannot be taken seriously.
The voice alone has done so many things to him. its comforted and tormented him all in the same moment. “Are we feeling better today JJ? Yesterday we sent you to bed early because you caught an attitude with me. “Joker paused and his face grew grim, “Do you remember that? I don’t want it happening again.”
Multiple times the Joker spoke of his past, but they didn’t seem to be consistent, but all depicting how he received
The Joker's past isn't something he's fond about, he has a permanent smile, his dad was abusive and didn't want anything to do with his kid and he was a drunk. His dad took a knife and cut a permanent smile from the corner of his lips to the tops of his cheeks. The Joker went insane as the years passed he started to paint his face white with read around the mouth, green hair, white button up shirt, purple or orange bow tie, and brown paints with black shoes. The Joker makes the best super villain or just villain in general. The Joker has had many encounters with Batman.\
The Joker is a fictional character in the movie series “The Dark Knight Rises” who is attributed with the mental illness, antisocial personality disorder. The representation of the Joker and his mental disorder is stigmatized, representing him as a psychopathic killer due to his mental health. Due to the attribution of the disorder, it is portraying one with the disorder as a ‘murderer’, providing the viewers of the inaccuracy and negative view of the disorder. Symptoms of the disorder is as follows: Lack of remorse, failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviours, reckless disregard of
There is no character who is really like no other in the world of comic book villains, and that character is the Joker. Which would be hard for a person to actually find a character who is deep and this disturbed in the world of comic book villains? The mind that originated him, Jerry Robinson, must have been a very twisted person, undoubtedly. The Joker represents a theory about existence that part of me believes that all people wish we could embrace in our own way. He is an outrageous character, the stuff he does to other people is the lowest of the lows. The Joker is also a fascinating character, with an interesting world view, which is why he is my favorite villain. He has so many characteristics that make him even more interesting, like his history, his character, and how is he portrayed.
Joker was a serial killer who killed without the slightest hint of remorse. He would kill his targets using a toxin which was branded Joker Venom. It would cause his subjects to fall into episodes of laughter which was uncontrollable, with higher doses causing them to get paralyzed, fall into a coma or eventually, die. Their faces would be left smiling in a bizarre manner. He is depicted as the only one who knows how to prepare the toxin, making it from common household
As the viewer experiences this mood, they are able to link these feelings with how the viewer feels towards the character of the Joker, and thus the audience’s interoperation of the Joker’s personality is formed very quickly. The same emotions
Although The Joker and Stapleton are different, their personalities share one main connection, that they both are surprisingly vain. The Joker thinks highly of himself, as well as his