Patrick Bateman

on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip” (Easton Ellis 23). Patrick Bateman said this quote about himself in the book American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis. In the novel American Psycho, Patrick Bateman is an unfathomably rich, fashionable and meticulous man that works on Wall Street. ☺ He is very approachable, gets all of the attractive women but he also bears secrets. Patrick Bateman is an avid cocaine user, chronic club goer and he also murders anything that breathes

the movie American Psycho, Patrick Bateman perpetrates numerous murders with no justified reasoning. Bateman makes a living as a young, wealthy executive who works on Wall Street. He lives life by dining at voguish restaurants, while managing appearances for his fiancée. His social group tends to consist of associates with the same occupation as his him and his wellbeing. What his associates and no one else knows about him is his hidden life as a serial killer. Bateman often boasted about his extravagant

including the main character, Patrick Bateman, are largely concerned with materialistic possesions and gain, power, and how their superficial appearences appear to others. Patrick Bateman is shaped mostly by the society that he lives in, showing us the superficial and brutal sides of capitalism. It is apparent how Patrick and his colleagues and friends perceive other people who they consider below them and how they perceive themselves. This is evident when Patrick and his friend, Timothy Price

begins in the late 1980s with Patrick Bateman, a young wealthy businessman working for a Wall Street bank, and who lives in Manhattan. From the start, some of the characteristics that would describe Patrick are: alpha male, narcissistic, misogynist, self-absorbed, insecure, so wrapped up in his own life that is contingent on dining at fancy restaurants while keeping up his appearance. Throughout the movie American Psycho by Mary Harron (2000), we discover more about Patrick as well as revealing things

Patrick Bateman in the movie American Psycho introduces an extraordinary test for personality theory. Analyzed is how psychoanalytic premise applies to this character. He represents an almost total absence of inner self, a superego based on a freak profound quality and an id permitted to showcase its most sullied dreams. This shows how the superego and id can shape an unreasonable settlement equipped for creating vicious savagery and lost refinement amongst reality and dream. These odd conditions

Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Patrick Bateman Tien Nguyen Pasadena City College Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Patrick Bateman Overview For this psychological disorder analysis paper, I picked the movie American Psycho. American psycho is a 2000 American Canadian black comedy psychological thriller horror film directed by Mary Harron. The movie was based on Bret Easton Ellis’s novel with the same name. The movie was stars by Christian Bale playing the main character

American Psycho. Patrick Bateman in the movie American psycho presents a unique challenge for charcterization theories. He represents a total lack of ego an id permitted to act out its most depraved fantasies and a super ego that is based on deviant morality. Unique conditions portrayed in the film allow self actulization to be explored from the view point that any behavior can be actualizing. Though he could be considered evil he has his needs met along the hierarchy up to the point where his violent

ironic way when Patrick mentions to everyone around him that he is a psychopath but no one can listen. For example, when Patrick is in the Spa he mentions to the massage therapists that he wants to “take a girl and a doggie- a collie, sharpai, it doesn’t matter- and then hook up this transfusion pump.. and switch their blood” (Easton Ellis 116). However they are ironically listening to music and too busy to care so they tell him to stop speaking and to relax. Additionally, Bateman himself does not

community has much more specific diagnoses. However, the explanation of certain behaviors may be difficult because there is much overlap among mental conditions. In Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho, the protagonist, Patrick Bateman, is apparently simply a psychopath. However, Bateman can be diagnosed with other mental illnesses such as Asperger’s syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, narcissism, and antisocial personality disorder. In both the book and film adaptation, Bateman’s

working on wall street and by night a sexual sadist. Patrick Bateman is an intriguing character as he catalogs the entirety of his morning routine and a colleagues entire outfit, where at first this is tedious to read, it then becomes concerning as the reader begins to wonder about the mental state of the narrator. Even after being over a hundred pages into the novel and no one is murdered we still get a glimpse into the disturbing mind of Patrick Bateman as he slips in a comment about murder as causal