Irritability and Aggressiveness Antisocial Personality Disorder
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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
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personality disorder suffered by Amy including her actions and behaviors that reflect the personality disorder and also the cause of it.