FACTORS INFLUENCING THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMY'S PERSONALITY DISORDER IN THE NOVEL GONE GIRL

Abstract

Personality disorders, portrayed in Gone Girl through the character of Amy Dunne exhibiting psychopathic traits, enhance plot complexity and reveal the hidden impact of such disorders on relationships. In the article "Gone Girl really is psychopathic mental illness then" explores how Flynn presents this personality disorder through the character Amy Dunne. Using the psychoanalytic paradigms of Freud and Jung, this study investigates Amy's acts and motivations through analysis over elements associated with Id, Ego, Superego. An archetypal analysis of Amy in Gone Girl using biological, psychological and social factors to explain her behavior. Amy is a manipulative and aggressive woman, with the Id to back it up; more primal instincts for control mean often against what society tells us we want. The Ego then functions as their go-between handling clashes between both of these contrary inclinations and humanistic criteria, exhibiting manipulation with the pursuit independent aspirations. Amy's Superego is the one, when conditioned by social norms, occasionally adopts moral values but with a twist: it finds loopholes in ethical behavior to fit into society and its own plans. JungIan archetypes, such as the Shadow and Anima/Animus help to add layers of depth even more to her character whilst showing where she pulls part of those manipulation skills from and also how these masculine vs feminine trades come into play. This perspective offers a deep and meaningful reading of Amy as part of an intricate literary system, working within its other subterranean flows alongside the psychological wells to which it plunges - producing in the process knowledge not just about character but identity, human truth itself.