Irritability and Aggressiveness Antisocial Personality Disorder

26 Imbalanced Personality in Eugene O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra”. This research attempts to reveal personality disorder suffered by Lavinia and also the defense mechanism found in the literary work. Perdanawati also tries to reveal the cause of Lavinia’s personality disorder. In order to find the answer to the objectives of the research, Perdanawati applies Freud’s psychoanalysis approach to reveal the imbalanced personality of Lavinia which becomes the reason why she suffers personality disorder. Another research that focuses on personality disorder of character in literary work is a thesis written by Fadhilah Atikah in 2014 entitled “Count Olaf’s Antisocial Personality Disorder in Handler’s A Series of Unfortunate Events”. In this research, Atikah attempts to analyze the personality disorder of Count Olaf, the main character of A Series of Unfortunate Events. Unlike the other two mentioned before, Atikah applies psychological theory from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition DSM-IV. This manual is published by American Psychiatric Association as the guide for psychiatrics to diagnose any kind of mental disorder suffered by a person. Based on this research, Count Olaf shows the diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder which makes him to be a psychopath. The previous research findings above analyze similar topic which is personality disorder. However, the researches above are different from the researcher’s analysis because the researcher uses psychological approach and DSM- IV to analyze Amy Dunne in Flynn’s Gone Girl. This research aims to analyze the 27 personality disorder suffered by Amy including her actions and behaviors that reflect the personality disorder and also the cause of it.

F. Conceptual Framework

Psychological condition of a person cannot be seen directly when we meet that person. It needs deeper examination to know if a person has bad psychological condition or not. It has the same thing to do with a person’s personality. Even though it is easy to mention someone as kind, diligent, or talkative, no one knows if the personality shown by a person is fake. Personality is developed since one was child. During the process of growth from childhood to adulthood, there have been many events occurred to one’s life. Those events, more or less, will have impact to the person’s personality development. Being verbally abused by parents, bullied by childhood friends, or other bad events can be trigger to maladjustment of one’s personality development. When personality could not be fully developed, it will result personality disorder. This research aims to analyze the personality disorder of Amy Dunne, the main character of Flynn’s Gone Girl. In order to analyze it, the researcher uses psychological approach and DSM-IV. The researcher believes the personality disorder suffered by Amy happens because many causes. Therefore, the researcher conducts this research to answer the objective of the research: 1 to identify the actions and behaviors of Amy Dunne that reflect her personality disorder and 2 to reveal the causes of personality disorder suffered by Amy, which can be tracked from