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The Psychopath Phenomenon Reflected InGillian Flynn ’S Gone Girl Novel (2012):A Psychoanalytic Approach
Rosin Novaditya Nur Wahid, M. Thoyibi, A M. Hum Siti Fatimah
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Abstract
This research is about The Psychopath Phenomenon Reflected in Gillian
Flynn’s Gone Girl novel (2012) which is analyzed by using Psychoanalytic
Approach. The objectives of this study are to describe the characteristic of
psychopath, to analyze types of psychopath, to analyze the cause of being of
psychopath, and to understand why the author opened psychopath to the public. This
research is a qualitative research. The primary data of this research is Gone Girl
(2012) a novel by Gillian Flynn. The secondary data are some selected references
and material related to the study. The researcher displays four conclusions in this
research. Firstly, everybody can be a psychopath and have five characteristics
namely, lack of remorse, grandiosity, compulsive lying, manipulative, anti - social
behavior. Secondly, there are two types of psychopath. Namely Con Artist and The
Victim. Con artist is a psychopath who is good at manipulating, fluent lying and
distorting the facts, and The Victim a psychopath who uses sex as a hook for
achieving the goal. Thirdly, the causes of psychopath. Family problem is one of the
causes someone to be a psychopath. And the last, Gillian Flynn take psychopath in
her books to show the dark side of woman.