Introversion and Extraversion of female characters in Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl: A Jungian Reading
Subject Areas : Literary Studies
Zeinab Sharghi
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hassan shahabi
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1 - دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد کرجدانشکده زبان و ادبیات انگلیسی
2 - دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد کرمان
Keywords: Schizophrenia, Hysteria, Traits structure, Introversion and Extraversion, Psychic energy ,
Abstract :
The present study offers an analysis of Amy character in Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn`s applying Jungian theory. It includes Jung's theory of introversion and extroversion and psychological energy, which the researcher tries to analyze the relationship between these two characteristics in the main character of the story named Amy. The purpose of this study is to find the correlation between Amy's personality and her psychological energy. This study implies qualitative methods and applies the theory with the appropriate data. Amy's behaviors and personality traits has related to her childhood and the moments she had with her parents and Amy's book, and the psychological suffering and comparison that was inflicted on her during the period. Unconsciously, it has affected on her mental energy, causing her to develop schizophrenia and hysteria. Amy's mental energy can be examined through her duplicitous behavior and criminal actions. Therefore, with the help of this information, the researcher has realized that Amy wants to be seen and controlled by people, so on at the same time she hates all members of society, especially her husband, who is unable to distinguish reality from her illusions due to her illness. As this novel the writer find out, society is contributed change people’ personality and behaviour so this article is important to analysis.
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Introversion and Extraversion of female characters in Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl: A Jungian Reading
Abstract
The present study offers an analysis of Amy character in Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn`s applying Jungian theory. It includes Jung's theory of introversion and extroversion and psychological energy, which the researcher tries to analyze the relationship between these two characteristics in the main character of the story named Amy. The purpose of this study is to find the correlation between Amy's personality and her psychological energy. This study implies qualitative methods and applies the theory with the appropriate data. Amy's behaviors and personality traits has related to her childhood and the moments she had with her parents and Amy's book, and the psychological suffering and comparison that was inflicted on her during the period. Unconsciously, it has affected on her mental energy, causing her to develop schizophrenia and hysteria. Amy's mental energy can be examined through her duplicitous behavior and criminal actions. Therefore, with the help of this information, the researcher has realized that Amy wants to be seen and controlled by people, so on at the same time she hates all members of society, especially her husband, who is unable to distinguish reality from her illusions due to her illness. As this novel the writer find out, society is contributed change people’ personality and behaviour so this article is important to analysis.
Key words: Schizophrenia, Hysteria, Traits structure, Introversion and Extraversion, Psychic energy
Overview
Gillian Flynn is an American writer who has published many novels. Gone Girl was published in 2012 and became the best-selling book in most parts of the world in 2013 and 2014. This book has had high sales in Iran and was able to win the title of best-selling book in 2014 and 2015. In each chapter, the novel is narrated from the point of view of one of the main characters (Nick Don and Amy Elliott Dunn) and keeps the reader in constant suspense until the facts are revealed. The Gone Girl is the novel of main character’s disappearance named Amy Elliott, who is the wife of a man named Nick Dunne. On the morning of anniversary of Nick Dunne and Amy Elliott Dunne, he realizes that wife has disappeared. There are suspicions in the media about Amy's disappearance that Nick himself killed his wife. Amy and Nick live in New York City, had a troubled life and their marriage was not successful. They both lost their jobs during the recession and were forced to move to a small town in Missouri. A police officer called Rhonda Boney finds evidence of the couple's financial problems.
Then after some days, Amy gone somewhere far away.
Amy thinks Nick must be convicted of murder. When one of the neighbors steals her money, Amy calls her rich old friend Desi Collings and convinces him that she has been forced to run away from Nick to save my life. Desi agrees to hide Amy in his expensive house by a lake. Meanwhile, Nick tells his twin sister Margo that he is innocent and hires a lawyer named Tanner Bolt to improve his public image. After it turns out that Nick has betrayed his wife, he appears on a TV show to apologize for not being a good wife, but swears that he has never killed anyone. This program will restore the public image of Nike Dunn. On the other hand, Amy deceives Desi and cuts his throat with a razor. Amy, drowned in blood, returns home and says that Desi had stolen her and wanted to rape her. Finally, there is no way to prove Amy guilty. Nick intends to leave Amy and expose her lies. But Amy tells him that she is pregnant and that she got pregnant through artificial insemination of Nick's sperm in the infertility clinic. Eventually, Nick reluctantly decides to stay with Amy and announces on a TV show that they will soon have a baby.
Jung's main points are the conflict between introversion and extroversion, which is caused a great change in the human brain. From Jung's point of view, the phenomena of extraversion and introversion are two important aspects of human personality. “When attention to objects and external affairs is so intense that voluntary actions and other basic human actions are not the result of mental evaluation. Rather, it is the result of the relations between foreign affairs and factors and should be called extraversion” (Gholizadeh, qtd. Schultz).
Extroverts have more objective and external views and have higher practical activity. “Extroverts want to influence their environment and compete with others and appear more in public” (Siasi82). “Introverts are psychologically faster than normal, which means that introverts need less than normal motivation. These people spend their time studying more alone and are less willing to socialize with others. “If extraversion and introversion are complete, they will be two different poles, and the more intense the conflict between the polarities, the greater the energy production.” (Siasi, qtd. Jung). Jung was one of the first to popularize the concept of introversion and extroversion. In Jung's model, introversion and extroversion are a dichotomy. In the sense that you are either introverted or extroverted. “The simplest definition of introversion and extroversion in Jung's model is as follows: Introversion means that one's attention, interests, and concerns are focused on one's feelings, thoughts, and inner world. In contrast, extroversion means that one's attention and interests are focused on the outside world” (Schultez 106 ).
In Jung's more specialized books and articles, you will also find phrases like these: That for the introvert, mental life is very attractive. That the introvert gets energy from being alone with herself and loses her energy in interaction with others.
Eysenck Questionnaire and his definition of extraversion and introversion
EPQ: Hans Eysenck borrowed the terms introversion and extroversion from Jung. But instead of using dipoles, he preferred to place them at both ends of a spectrum. So, Hans Eysenck definition, each of us has a point in the spectrum of introversion and extroversion. “Of course, Eisenhower actually calls his scale the Extraversion Scale. That is, it assumes that we are all somewhat extroverted and that only our degree of extroversion is different. Naturally, if you are less extroverted than your friend, you can assume that you are introverted towards him” (Jones and Francis).
Statement of the Problem
This research tries to show the introverted and extraverted characteristics of female characters in the Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn with based on Jungian theory. “Jung's idea of introversion and extraversion is an important dimension of people's behavior. Behavior for Jung is derived from psychic energy” (Schultz 108). Psychic energy can be directed outwards, so the researcher will have extraverted behavior, and if psychic energy is directed inward, the researcher will have introverted energy. They put people in front of two abnormal characters. In fact, the conflict between the polarities, produce the greater energy. Bipolar disorder causes a person to be weak in performing his activities and performance or to suffer to such an extent that he ignores the facts. The reasons for this disorder include genetic mutations, anxiety, brain structure, depression, and mental disorders. By using these keywords, the researcher tends to show the reason for the behavior of female. “Jung`s view of the introversion and extroversion on the structural nature of human personality is discussed. He calls this energy or the force on which the character acts as a psychological force. Psychic energy is the biological force. For Jung, psychic energy is not a definite phenomenon but a hypothetical structure” (Schultz107). “According to Jung's theory, the main character in the story of Amy's Gone Girl has an introverted and extroverted personality at the same time, which is derived from her psychic strength, which is an important dimension of her behavior” (Jung). Psychological or biological force is generally defined as the study of the relationship between the brain and behavior.
Psychological energy is a psychological biological force that, if used, motivates human behavior and personality. The source of this energy is biological instinct and can be increased or decreased by contact and interaction with the environment. Psychic energy can be considered the most expensive and rarest energy in the world, which unfortunately is easily wasted. Psychological energy is the motivating factor of human for internal and external behavior. This energy is invested in various objective and mental phenomena. In this case, everything is a phenomenon. The person is a phenomenon, speech is a phenomenon, the mental state is a phenomenon, the outside world is a phenomenon. These phenomena take up a certain amount of psychological energy to make one feel and think about that phenomenon. Optimal investment is when there is a balance between the value of the phenomenon and the amount of energy allocated. For example, if a phenomenon has 10 units of value, it should consume 10 units of mental energy. This state is a kind of realism and regulation of mental energy, which is a sign of a healthy personality and optimal consumption of mental energy. Otherwise, the researcher will see a lack of proper consumption, which will result in undesirable emotional responses and pathological behaviors, and it is natural that in abnormal contexts, the regulation of psychic energy will be disturbed.
Jung has stated three principles. He talked about the contradiction in the energy of nature, such as cold and heat, which also exists in the psychic energy. This principle produces mental energy. The greater the conflict, the greater the energy production, which is called the principle of equivalence. If mental energy disappears in a certain field, that energy is transferred to another mental place. Mental energy that is spent dreaming and waking up in waking activities
Amy has described herself as highly rewarding on a self-assessment scale because of her dual personality. In other words, mania has followed events that achieve the goal and try too hard to pursue their goals. Amy rejects any doubts in terms of her extroverted nature, and is often drawn to peril per capita in unfamiliar situations with light self-confidence, and is easily blunt and adaptable. On the other hand, she has an introverted spirit and tries to be isolated and plans and thinks to take care of herself. “Activities in the frontal cortex of the command center for complex mental activities include capturing information, integrating it, storing information, and creating solutions” (Helgo). Amy's personality type is derived from her psychic energy, which “according to Karl Jung's theory, the conflict between Amy's extraversion and introverted personality is intense and complete. Amy's character suffers from hysteria and schizophrenia” (Jung). In fact, With the help of Jung's theory, the researcher intends to determine the reason for the creation of extroverted and introverted personality. The researcher should mention that each of these characteristics is created in every human being, it is unusually severe and complete and cause problems in personal and social life of individual.
Research Questions
1) How does Amy`s Psychic energy effects on her behavior?
2) What are the result of in Amy`s behavior disorder?
3) How does Amy`s psychic energy effects on the people’s behavior?
4) What are the Traits of introversion and extroversion on females and how does it make change in Amy`s behavior?
5) How does Amy manipulate people's minds? Why?
Significance of the Study
It is clear that many factors play a role in causing bipolar disorder or depression (mania). Factors such as genetic mutations, anxiety, depression, as well as the structure of the brain. All of these stems from the conditions of society and the environment around people, the family, childhood problems of each individual and their nutrition. However, the fallowing cases has not paid attention to cause these problems and has not done proper research in this area. Society causes people`s personality and mind, but why and how society affects personality is due to the inner energy of each person's mind and is affected by the percentage of extroverted and introverted personality that is related to the structure of each person's brain, so people have different behavioral structures. Because each person's reaction in any situation depends on the structure of the brain and whether the person is introverted or extroverted. As a result, the novel selected with Jung's theory can be a guide to have the right look because of the different behaviors in each person.
Literary criticism of a human behavior in a civil society can be generalized to a part of the people of that society and you can find a correct understanding of that society and have a correct analysis of human behavior. In this analysis, the researcher has tried to make an example of people in the community by examining Amy's behavior and show that people's behavior has changed under the influence of environmental and genetic factors and can influence and control people's decisions and thoughts. Therefore, this analysis shows the special place of literature in correct sociology and helps to have a deeper look at the field of literature and psychology, because by knowing and being aware of the theories of theorists, one can find the reason for the behaviors and in The result can be people with a healthy mind because the literature of a society shows the intellectual, cultural and behavioral maturity of that society. The benefit of Jung's theory is that in the face of experimental and laboratory research that studies only limited corners or aspects of personality, this theory deals with the relationship between these aspects and, consequently, how personality is formed. The researcher has tried to show that the study and research of Jung's extraversion and introversion is not only related to the fields of psychology, and of course, medical issues are also influential, and it brings new ideas and helps to advance science.
Methodology and Design
According to Carl Jung, what signifies the novelty of the researcher study is the female characters in Gone Girl. The way people think and perceive the environment, it is characterized by both extraverted and introverted attitudes, and then psychological types are created. In Carl Jung's model" introversion and extraversion are a Dichotomy characteristic. He believes that all people have both extraversion and introversion tendencies, and usually one of the two dominates the other. If these two extraversion and introversion appear to perfection, they will confront the person with two abnormal characters". (Jung and Schultz 108)
“The MBTI instrument contains four separate indexes. Each index reflects one of four basic preferences which as Jung describes directs the use of perception and judgment. An individual's preference affects not only what they attend to in a particular situation, but also how they draw conclusions about what they have
perceived.
Attitudes refer to extraversion (E) or introversion (I).
Processes of perception are sensing (S) and intuition (N).
Processes of judgment are thinking (T) and feeling (F).
The style of dealing with the outside world is shown by judgment (J) or
perception (P).
Extraversion–Introversion (E–I)
The E–I index is designed to reflect whether a person is an extravert or an introvert in the manner described by Jung. He regarded extraversion and introversion as "mutually complementary" attitudes whose differences "generate the tension that both the individual and society need for the maintenance of life." Extraverts are oriented primarily toward the outer world; thus, they tend to focus their perception and judgment on people and objects. Introverts are oriented primarily toward the inner world and they tend to focus their perception and judgment upon concepts and ideas " (Geyer, “Psychological Types”).
The researcher has used Carl Jung's introversion and extraversion theory to find the reason for female Dichotomy characteristic (Jung). The psychic energy, unconscious, brain structure together forms a valuable psychological framework that creates an ambiguous behavior in female character. “So the present study will help the researcher sees the reason in which creat female personality disorder with Carl Jung's extraversion and introversion theory” (Doosti).
The writer uses a core to make an analysis and to describing the problem and classifying it. These collection focused on one character and connected with the object of study. These information collected from references such as books, articles and websites. The researcher uses the primary data apply by movie that are formed by the main characters and the dialogues which used in Gone Girl. In this paper writer uses the secondary data are collected from some sources like journals, books and some references in website to support the main data. After collecting the data, the researcher analysis data and t describes the main character and her husband and their events in Gone Girl Movie.
Analysis
Gone Girl is her third novel and nominated for both the Antony Award and the Edgar Award for best novel. In social life communication is so important. People are judged in the community just by their appearance or ever thing which was happened to them. Gone Girl is more than crime genres and suspense and mystery novel. The protagonist of the book is Amy Elliot who is writer of Harvard. Gone girl look into Amy`s life and her husband. Amy always strived to live up to the image of Amazing Amy. Amy has two personalities in which refers to herself as `real Amy` while she tries to live up to `Amazing Amy`. Gone girl uses suspects, unfolding secrets in which is common to thriller. The point is that Amy is main character and pretending to be other one or dream girl but it is hidden what is true. She wants appear to be Nick’s ideal wife. She framed a plan for her husband for her murder while she watched her husband and his plead. When Nick`s mother had cancer, they moved to Missouri but she did not like it. During argument, Nick pushed her to the floor … She said: what scared me was how he wanted to hurt me more and finally I understand that I am frightened of my own husband. When Amy saw Nick with younger woman, she said Nick took everything from me, that `s a murder. Amy was educated, intelligent and she was a much better writer than Nick. Gillian Flynn is a writer of Gone girl which is her bestselling book to date. She was a popular culture writer and she was laid off after many years. Flynn invites readers to know she took inspiration for Amy Dunne from her own interior monologue. This story is from her 2012 novel of the same title thriller novel.
Gone Girl
This book is about main character psychopath woman called Amy who was selected by her mother as a main character in her book by perfect personality and life. Her mother created Amazing Amy with the character of her girl. The researcher finds Amy has two personality. At the same time, she has introvert behavior, has extrovert behavior. Karl Jung divided personality into two introversion and extraversion part that they are made by psychic energy. Amy Dunne`s behavior is driven by her introversion and extraversion personality. Amy`s impulsive comes from her psychic energy which Extroverted and introverted personality traits are formed based on it. According to Karl Jung psychic energy is Biological force is distributed by Amy`s frontal lobe of the brain and the midbrain (Grenneman, Line 12). Amy is sad from her husband had plan to revenge him but because of her disorder in personality and her mind disease, she selects specific way.
In society are different people with different personality and thinking. Over all people know if a person disturbs others, he or she hasn’t Normal behavior that It can be because of many reasons. One reason can be psychic energy which are in every mind of person that creates their behavior. If psychic energy has disorder as a consequence personality will have disorder. It can be created because of genetic or hereditary, their structure of brain. The researcher assumed that it was caused by their disorder of psychic energy it is caused extraversion and introversion behavior into them. The researcher question is how a person can have extraversion and introversion personality at the same time and how it creates Schizophrenia or hysteria. Amy had a special personality trait and she was smart because she has high psychic energy and she made a plan to revenge from Nick and to keep up him forever. She made a plan all the time even in her leisure time. She was intelligent and could create anything new from any subject. Her introverted psychic power was able to analyze things in a new way. As the story progresses and bankruptcy and relocation move, this complex mind becomes more complex. Amy showed her troubled mind by keeping silent and making fun of her husband. Amy tried to recognize and analyze people's behaviors to accept the situation.
Amy`s Childhood
Amy is known as a smart and kind woman and furthermore them she is popular due to her mother. Her mother with the help of Amazing Amy in her book strives to learn her daughter how you be perfect. Because of this Amy influenced by Amazing Amy`s book.
“ Just last night was my parents’ book party. Amazing Amy and the big Day. Yup, Rand and Marybeth couldn’t resist. They’ve given their daughter’s namesake what they can’t give their daughter: a husband! … my paperbound better half, the me I was supposed to be” (Flynn 40 ) “ My parents have always worried that I’d take
Amy too personally_” ( Flynn 40)
Amy`s behavior is related with psychic disorder which thoughts is disturbed by some conflicts in her mind. That is mental illness and make it unhealthy. Gillian Flynn in the part of the book refers to Amy's character in the story and the comparison that was made by Amazing Amy. Amy tries to analyze and process the book due to her influence from Amazing Amy. This is because of her introversion personality. Because of her introversion feature she compares her strengths and weaknesses which was caused feelings of blame, sadness, pessimism (Jung theory). Due to the completeness of the mental energy within the tendency, it has caused hallucinations and schizophrenia in her. Other sign of her psychic disorder mentioned below.
“I have many friends who are married- they knit their eyebrows and pretend to think of men they can set me up with, but we all know there is no one left, no one good left…. I know that they think there’s something wrong with me, something hidden away that makes me unsatisfiable, unsatisfying” ( Flynn 43).
Hysteria is a type of psychic disorder in which Amy has deep internal conflicts. Because of her extroverted personality, she does not show any stress or discomfort and hides her anxiety.
According to this part, Amy has a totalitarian behavior which is due to her extroverted personality. Her outer psychic energy is perfect and however she has not reached the perfection she wants; her inner psychic energy is also activated and complete. Therefore, in the frontal lobe of the brain and in the path of acetylcholine (Christopher), it goes through a long process of analysis and is anxious inside itself and is not satisfied under any circumstances. She tries to hide her feelings. Here, her two extroverted and introverted characters are in full swing, and she behaves in opposition and suffers from bipolar behavior.
“Nick: Amy thanks to a namesake book series that I thought I could remember as a kid. Amazing Amy. Amy explained this to me in calm, measured tones, as if I were patient waking from a coma. As if she ‘d had to do it too many times before and it had gone badly” ( Flynn 51).
Amy is grateful as she thought if she became famous is because of Amazing Amy in her mother book, so all the time she was a child of comparison and conception. This is why she had a dual character (Amazing Amy and the main Amy). This is why she has two introverted and extroverted characters. Because the psychic energy of both poles was completely and as a result, they had created opposition in her behavior and she was suffering from bipolar behavior. Amy had a high level of inner psychic energy that gave her a completely introverted personality, and she tried to plan the sentences with the right planning so that she could influence the audience and achieve her goal. She could repeat a subject over and over without realizing it, and this was due to her schizophrenia ‘the schizophrenic patient is very smart and can talk for hours about her dreams without realizing the time’(“Health Asutralian”).
Amy`s Wedding
When Amy gets married with Nick, she likes to be perfect and fun to Nick. She always had treasure hunt games. However, it was not just to show be love but rather she tries to have some controlling act to Nick. Here, Amy`s introversion personality is dominated. She strives to have a control and to repeat they love each other. On the conversation below, there some point:
“My wife loved games, mostly mind games, but also actual games of amusement, and for our anniversary she always set up an elaborate treasure hunt, with each clue leading to the hiding place of the next clue until I reached the end, and my present. It was what her dad always did for her mom on their anniversary…. (Flynn 59) Amy was clever, withering, sarcastic. Amy could get me riled up, could make an excellent, barbed point, but go always made me laugh. It is dangerous to laugh at your spouse” ( Flynn 35).
Amy's interest in mind games and treasure hunting goes back to her introverted personality, which is associated with increased activity in the frontal lobe areas. “Among individuals in the whole brain blood flow, no difference was found between introverts and extroverts. But CBF was significantly different in certain parts of the brain” (Christopher).
Due to her introverted personality, Amy seeks to create mind games and analyze relationships, for which, the activity of her frontal lobe increases and she goes a long way Acetylcholine to analysis. And on the other hand, she is smart and teasing, which refers to her extroverted personality, which is associated with more dopamine receptors in the midbrain. “The dopamine pathway is shorter than the acetylcholine pathway, which is why Amy is able to respond quickly and tease” (Christopher 11).
“It is our one-year anniversary, and Nick is leaving work at lunchtime; my treasure hunt awaits him. The clues are all about us, about the past year together” ( Flynn 55).
Due to Amy's introverted personality and high inner psychic energy, her mind is planning throughout the year and this activity takes place in front of her forehead brain. On the other hand, she is making a riddle every moment so that Nick can solve it and she can win. She feels successful and the best. This is due to her extroverted personality. One of the characteristics of an extrovert character is the desire to be attractive and show that she is the best. Here, the researcher finds that both introverted and extroverted personalities are fully present, and that high mental energy flows through both parts of Amy's mind and brain.
“It doesn’t matter if the new Amazing Amy book has been well and duly scorched, the reviews vicious, the sales a stunning plummet after a limp start…. because I have found my match…. All the stuff I don’t like about myself has been pushed to the back of my brain. Maybe that is what I like best about him, the way he makes me. We love our house. The house that Amazing Amy built” ( Flynn 54).
Amy has had hallucinations due to her high psychic energy and extroverted personality and high activity in the middle part of the brain, and she has identified with the character of the story since childhood. She blamed herself for Amy having an amazing husband, but she didn't. After marrying Nick, she compared all the actions for her life with the character of the story and now she tries to keep up Nick through that common anniversary. She considered herself victorious. Because she had a husband! Now She said that Amy has created an amazing life for us, which is quite obvious with this sentence, that Amy's psychic energy is perfect and has complete introversion. This has created an illusion in her and she considers herself an absolute right, as she sees Nick as a means to build herself in other words, to make an amazing Amy. She is completely satisfied. Because she has fully planned and competed with her inner personality and now, she has won. One of the symptoms of schizophrenia is that the patient has hallucinations (Oshio 369) so in this part the researcher can see that Amy tries to have a control all the time to Nick and compare herself by Amazing Amy to be more perfect wife and have better life.
“I am being a girl. I just thought it’d be a tradition: All across town, I have strewn little love message, reminders of our past year together, my treasure hunt” ( Flynn 84). “happy anniversary, my asshole husband who neglected me on my big day” ( Flynn 86).
From the story about, Amy desire to have a perfect marriage but Nick has forgotten their anniversary. Because of her introversion personality she makes a plan and makes an anniversary tradition to control Nick but, in her diary, she hides that this is for control and she says this is a message of our past love. She has anxiety and blame herself because she wants to be amazing Amy but she can`t do it. In her diary because of her extroversion personality and Shizopherni, she looks herself as an Amazing Amy so she could not say that this tradition is for control because Amazing Amy is perfect and just tries to make love. So, she has anxiety and angry about nick because she thinks Nick is out of control and will lose her.
Amy`s Murder Crime
“She was humming something melancholy and familiar. I strained to make it out_ a folk song? A lullaby? _ and then realized it was the them to M.A.S.H. Suicide id painless. (Flynn 18) She was an unrivaled botcher of lyrics. When we were first dating, a Genesis song came on the radio: “She seems to have an invisible touch, yeah.” And Amy crooned instead, “She takes my hat and puts it on the top shelf.” When I asked her why she`d ever think her lyrics were remotely, possibly, vaguely right, she told me she always thought the woman in the song truly lived the man because she put his hat on the top shelf” ( Flynn 18).
Amy does criminal act when she interpreted from conscious dream, she arranges some form of crimes to Nick and wisper it. Her perception of the song and her whispers were the source of her inner psychic energy and sense of revenge for Nick Drew. This psychic energy in her mind had caused her to be calm and introvertedly, alone in planning for a grand plan. And her brain was in tune with her mind analyzing and planning in the long path of Steel Choline (Grenneman 1). So, Amy is trying to create a plan, even in the form of an illusion and a scenario in her mind, which is a sign of her schizophrenia, because she afraid of Nick and is trying to be isolated and plan and think to take care of herself. “According to Jung's theory, the schizophrenic patient has an introverted behavior and her inner psychic energy is at a perfect level” (Schultz). And biologically, the path of problem analysis is different, and when a person has introverted behavior, it means that information in her brain is processed from the long path of acetylcholine, and therefore the patient can create new thing according to her perception from around ( Grenneman 11). Amy was afraid of danger in real world, she was afraid of being betrayed by Nick. It can be seen on the conversation below.
Impress Public
Amy tries for perfection and would like to be perfect as Amazing Amy. According to Karl Jung her desire come from her extraversion personality. She arranges clues to realize her being perfect. She would like assumed be murdered by her husband as wants he goes prison. Being manipulativeis and deceitfulness is to control others and shows Amy has mental illness with antisocial personality with opposition behavior so is danger to society.
Amy had suggested that she make the issue more sensitive, and she must have thought for months. Amy wanted to impress the minds with clues and lead the police in the right direction. She loved to impress and play with the mind to say she is perfect, more perfect than the amazing Amy.
“ Nick: ‘Amy!’
As I ran back downstairs, I could see Carl still framed in the open doorway, hands on hips, watching. I swerved into the living room, and pulled up short. The carpet glinted with shard of glass; the coffee table shattered. End tables were on their sides…. ‘Amy!” ( Flynn 38)
Amy tries to be admired for her symbolic gestures and role-playing, so she has used such things to impress people. This is a feature of Amy's extroverted behavior, to capture and play with people's thoughts to achieve the goal. But on the other hand, this behavior also shows her introverted behavior that tries to plan carefully. Therefore, in this section, it is clear that Amy's brain is active in two parts. And this is where psychic energy is formed, which is a kind of biological energy and originates from the metabolism of her body (Noorbakhsh 189).
“Nick: Amy had been fond of recollecting stories of men obsessed with her. She described the stalkers in hushed tones over glasses of wine at various periods during our marriage” (Flynn 102 ).
Amy likes being attractive and loved by everyone as she likes to be perfect due to her extraversion personality. Because of Amy's past rape and underlying illness, Amy has always had the illusion that people are interested in her and following her. And from the point of view of her interest in being seen and being an example, she considers this a positive point and tries to draw attention to the fact that all of this is due to Amy's go-to personality and the activity of her midbrain.
“ For her thirty-fourth birthday, we flew to Barcelona, and she stunned me by rolling off trills of conversational Spanish, learned in months of secret lessons. My wife had a brilliant, popping brain, a greedy curiosity. But her obsessions tended to be fueled by competition: She needed to dazzle men and jealousy women……. Here in the Missouri, competition doesn’t interest them. It was about the worst outcome possible for my competitive wife… (“English4 success. ru”, Flynn 61). Amy was once a woman who did a little of everything, all the time”( Flynn 60).
The main point is she was secretly learning for three months because she did not trust anyone and did not want anyone to know her thoughts. Amy talks less because of her introverted personality and likes to be alone in doing her job. But on the other hand, she has a special interest in being special and being seen that comes from her extroverted personality. So, there are two high psychic energies in her character that have caused a contradiction and this makes her have a double behavior. She is very interested in competing because she wants to win and be seen, which is due to her external mental energy. “Extroverted woman tends to be attractive and in the center of attention” (Schultz 105) But because people are not competitive, she does not get the satisfaction he wanted inside, and as a result, he becomes anxious and tries to be alone and find better way because of her inner personality. So, she tries to know everything and to do everything.
Controlling and Fear of Losing
Amy always had the illusion of loneliness due to schizophrenia and thought she was going to be released. Because of the intensity of this feeling, he always had a restless mind and was even very sensitive and thought about the loss of household creatures or household items.
“Amy loved the cat, the cat was declawed, the cat never let outside, never ever, because the cat, Bleecker, was sweet but extremely stupid, and despite the LoJack tracking device pelleted somewhere in his fat furry rolls, Amy knew she`d never see the cat again if he ever go out ”( Flynn 37).
One of her introverted traits was her self-centered trait. Her dependence on others does not mean that she considers others great and honorable, but because she tames them, which is a kind of colonization of others. Because they are afraid of being alone. Amy's behavior by cutting the cat's paws reflects her fear of losing, which indicates that she does anything unusual to keep people, even if it is to their detriment.
“Amy`s favorite vase was lying on the floor, intact, bumped up against the wall. It was a wedding present, a Japanese master work that Amy put away each week when our housecleaner came because she was sure it would get smashed” ( Flynn 49).
Amy shows that she is afraid of losing and anxious about losing her device. And this is due to Amy's introverted personality that her inner psychic energy is complete and this complete psychic energy causes schizophrenia in her and fear and anxiety. “In schizophrenia, the patient is afraid of losing” (“Health Australian”).
When she was with her friends, she tried to keep them so that he would not be bothered, and on the other hand, he used them whenever he wanted. So, her fear of loneliness was not out of a desire to be them but to accomplish his goals. He tried to keep people able to use them in her time, but no more. Because she did not trust people and always thought she was dying, they conspired against her.
“The party is being thrown by one of Carmen`s good friends who writes about movies for a movie magazine, and is very funny, according to Carmen. I worry for a second that she wants to set us up: I am not interested in being set up. I need to be ambushed, caught unawares, like some sort of feral love-jackal. I`m too self-conscious otherwise” (“English4 success. ru”, Flynn 23).
There is anxiety and fear because of conflict between introverted and extroverted. When Amy has fear feeling infront of people she manipulates all words to be attractive. However, she is afraid of being Judged. with these thoughts and feelings of being betrayed, pointing to her shyness and trying to be attractive it is clear that the psychic energy of the two poles of Amy's personality is intense and there is opposition (Jung,1921). Her thoughts were involved in the brain by two pathways of acetylcholine, which is related to introversion and dopamine, which is related to extraversion. (Grenneman 12). For Jung, psychic energy is a hypothetical structure, and Amy's introverted and extroverted personality is derived from her psychic energy (Jung). So, Amy is involved between two characters, complete introversion and complete extroversion. Amy because of her extraversion wants to be attractive but her fear did not allow so her hysterical illness was cleared and she would like to be away from people.
“A number of women_ friends of my mom’s, friends of Go’s_ had invited Amy to book clubs and Amway parties and girls” nights at Chili’s. Amy had predictably declined all but a few, which she attended and hated: “We ordered a million little fried thing and drank cocktails made from ice cream” (“English4 success. ru”, Flynn 121).
Amy doesn’t like be with others because she does not have empathy. She does not trust people and thought that everyone was plotting against her and intending to harm her. Therefore, she never enjoys being with people and this is one of the signs of her schizophrenia. The schizophrenic patient is suspicious of everyone and sees everyone as her enemy. This is because of her inner mental energy, which is perfect and this behavior are difficulty controlling is caused to reached the level of insanity.
“Karl Jung said extraversion is a in front of introversion. if one spends psychic energy on a particular thought, it is said to have a lot of psychic energy. Jung used the concepts of physics to explain psychic energy. She used the three basic principles of opposites, equivalence, and entropy to express herself. According to the principle of opposites or polarities, in natural energy refers to heat versus cold. This is also present in psychological energy, and in fact, the more complete a pole is, the greater the conflict between the poles, and the person becomes overwhelmed with introversion and extroversion, which in turn causes
schizophrenia and hysteria” (Schultz).
Amy`s Hallucination
“I knew this to be true, at least, because her daughter suffered from the same tenacious worry streak: Amy could spend an entire evening out fretting that she left the stove on, even though we did not cook that day. Or was the door locked? Was I sure? She was a worst-case scenarist on a grand scale. Because it was never just that the door was unlocked, it was that the door was unlocked, and men were inside, and they were waiting to rape and kill her” ( Flynn 129).
Amy has a behavioral contradiction due to her completely introverted personality and her completely extroverted personality. Because of schizophrenia, she has the illusion of bad things happening and is obsessed with everything and everyone. She always thinks of the worst-case scenario for instance She is always worried about the stove staying on. She is worried about men entering her house because she imagines the rape, all of which is due to her introverted personality, which has full psychological energy and creates deep psychological fear in her mind, and the other pole of the brain is involved and energy of her inner psyche is also perfected and she shows her introverted personality due to her anxiety with insomnia as anxiety occurs because of fear of danger in the world. As a consequence, she is not able to have a good night's sleep due to these hallucinations and fears and she is constantly thinking of a way to solve these issues. According to Jung's theory “this introversion and mental energy is so high that it has caused schizophrenia in Amy, which has caused her anxiety and delusion.”( Schultz ).
“Amy had come to the mall to buy a gun on valentine`s Day, of all days, that`s what our friend Lonnie had said. She was a little abshed, a little nervous: Maybe I’m being silly, but... I just really think I need a gun” ( Flynn 154).
This part uses a technique to show that Amy scared and how she looks weaker. Amy scared of Nick because he pushed Amy as well as she knows Nick affair with Andie who is his student. So, she feels and thinks Nick wants to kill her. When she feels betrayed, she took revenge on her husband. Her desire for revenge is strong, it is created because of the impact of excessive thought and feels anxiety that she is not able to controlled. Her excessive thought and anxiety are caused because of her introversion personality and her inner psychic which became
perfect, so according to Jung, this has caused her to develop Shizophernia. Due to her high anxiety and inner psychic energy which is related to her introversion personality her information in front of her brain is highly active in the acetylcholine pathway that is caused schizophrenia (Christopher). So, she has the illusion that Nick intends to kill her. So she starts planning to take revenge and protect herself and tries to get a gun and sleeps with a gun at night.
Schizophrenia and Hysteria Personality Disorder
“Nick has all sorts of bizarre things on his computer, and sometimes I can`t resist a little light snooping_ It gives me a clue as to what my husband is thinking. His search history gave me the latest: noir films and a study on the Mississippi River, whether it`s possible to free-float from here to the Gulf”( Flynn 174).
A person with schizophrenia does not trust anyone and always thinks that there is a hidden problem in people and tries to get to know people. In her diary, Amy mentions that she wants to be a good wife to Nick and makes Nick happy, but she can't. And the reason for this failure is "I am an only child" and she finds herself kind of innocent, so she is absolutely right. She always suffers from a dichotomy of behavior and feelings and thoughts and understanding of issues, so she engages in unusual actions and unusual conversations (“Health Australia”).
“I know this sounds the stuff of moony teenage girls, but I`ve been tracking Nick`s moods. Just to make sure I am, not crazy. I `v got a calendar, and I put hearts on any day Nick seems to love me again, and black squares when he doesn`t. The past year was all black squares, pretty much ”(Flynn 203).
Amy is sick. She suffers from schizophrenia and hysteria. That is why she is not calm and is always worried and suspicious of others. She compares herself to the madness of a teenager, and with the help of this comparison, she tries to say that everything she does is normal. In her diary, she uses writing events to ensure that everything is under her control. Whenever she feels good and trusts Nick, she says that Nick loved me that day and when she does not have good feeling, she does not trust Nick. It can be said with a black square in the calendar that there is no love. She considers it necessary to maintain her married life. Amy is planning to take control of Nick. In her imagination or delusion, she sees herself as a completely amazing Amy, but in reality, she is isolated and seeks a conspiracy against Nick.
This is mentioned in a part of the book in good language: “ I`d come home to find Amy in a tight ball on the sofa, Amy staring at the wall, silent, never saying the first word to me, always waiting, a perpetual game of icebreaking, a constant mental challenge..”( Flynn 180). “Soon Andie became a physical counterpoint to all things Amy. She laughed with me and made me laugh, she did not immediately contradict me or second-guess me. She was easy.”( Flynn 183). “ The patient with schizophrenia considers herself a perfect and good person and is no longer interested in talking.”( “Health Australia”).
“I get in position, wiggle once or twice, and putt my bright red ball straight into the birdhouse opening. It disappears for a second, then reappears out a chute and into the hole. Disappear, reappear. I feel a wave of anxiety_ everything reappears at some point, even me. I am anxious because I think my plans have changed.” ( Flynn 325).
Amy is always a wave of anxiety because she is always suspicious of those around her. So she has created a world in her mind that everyone wants to hurt her and she needs to protect herself. All these thoughts are due to her external and internal mental energy, which influences her behavior, personality and decisions. Because these energies are perfect, it has created contradictions in her behavior and thoughts, leading to schizophrenia and hysteria. She had a plan to injure herself, and she came up with logical reasons to do so, proving that she was not guilty and that she had been forced to do so due to circumstances. But later she changes her schedule and to show this change logically, she says: ‘it is very masculine even for me and she points out that I will be in pain and I do not like this’. Wants and sees the absolute right without any mistakes. The following is another example of these feelings: “I have the discipline to kill myself, but can`t stomach the injustic. It`s not fair that I have to die. Not really die. I don`t want to. I`m not the one who did anything wrong” ( Flynn 326).
She describes the plot to kill herself as unfair if she dies and she is not the one who made the mistake. So, she blames the situation again and not on herself. This is due to her schizophrenia, which blames people and deserves to be condemned.
“The casino seemed like a good idea at first_ right off the highway, filled with drunks and elderly, neither of whom are known for eyesight. But I am feeling crowded and fidgety, aware of the cameras in every corner, the doors that could snap shut” ( Flynn 375).
Amy has an appointment with Dezi and she has a complete plan for this appointment. She chooses a place where people cannot recognize her, so she chooses a place where people are old because they do not have good eyesight and do not pay much attention to people and the environment. But still she is worried and looks around. She does because she fears she has made a mistake in her planning. All of these thoughts are about her schizophrenia, and because of this illness she does not trust anyone and is always on the defensive. According to Jung “when the inner energy and introversion are at their full potential, a person will suffer from schizophrenia and will have hallucinations and anxiety” (Jung 73). Her plans and decisions have failed to calm her mind and she is still full of stress.
Using People
“I was suddenly running across the summer lawn and down the street, banging on Noelle’s door, and when she opened it, I burst into tears and showed her the stick and yelled, ‘I’ am pregnant” ( Flynn 239). “I need her to break. I need 1) Noelle to tell someone about my pregnancy; 2) the police to find the diary; 3Andie to tell someone about the affair” ( Flynn 291). “I’m pregnant! Thank you, Noelle Hawthorn, the world Knows it now, you little idiot. In the day since she pulled her stunt at my vigil (I do wish she had not upstaged my vigil, though- ugly girls can be such thunder stealers), the hatred against Nick has ballooned” ( Flynn 301).
Amy prepared revenge for Nick because she had a revenge plan, one of which is her friendship with Noelle. She is a simple woman and believes Amy's words, so Amy attracts Noelle because of her extroversion and her own special behaviors. Everyone will doubt Nick.
“Go: ‘Nick ? she finally said. “Is it _ uh.. Do you_’
Nick: ‘ I don’t know, Go. Amy didn’t say anything to me. If she was pregnant, why would she tell Noelle and not tell me?’
Amy gives the news of her pregnancy in such a way that she believes Amy's desire and does not let Nick find out about their friendship in order to reach the goal she wanted in time. She states her goals in order, what they are. These show his high inner energy, she has a precise plan, and she is completely hallucinated because she himself does not know who she is and does not really know if she became pregnant with love or for revenge and this is her schizophrenia. Which has reached its peak. And on the one hand, she is trying to attract the attention and has hysteria of the public and those around her, so the two poles of his brain are extremely involved, which, in Jung's view, has created a contradiction in her personality.
“Desi, another man along the Mississippi. I always knew he might come in handy. It`s good to have at least one man you can use for anything.” ( Flynn 376)
Amy does not trust anyone but because she likes people to be in control of herself and may one day be helpful in her planning and try not to keep them for the day. This is because she thinks she is going to be harassed, so she is afraid of the future and is always planning. Because of her hysteria, Amy can control her calmness and concentration by holding people and feeling that everything is under her control. For this reason, she has not cut off her relationship with Dezi, even though she hates him.
“ I set my bag down in my room, trying to signal my retirement for the evening_ I need to see how people are reacting to Andie`s confession and whether Nick has been arrested_ but it seems I am far from through with the thank-you Desi has ensured I will be forever indebted to him.. ”( Flynn 394).
Amy uses an order for all the words and phrases that lead her to her ultimate goal. This means that there is a long planning behind each of her speeches. In this part, the researcher see her complete inner energy, that in her fantasies and thoughts, she sees herself as a perfect person like a wonderful Amy, and she may speak in a comparative way concerning a wonderful Amy, but in fact, within herself, she finds herself a wonderful Amy and a perfect human being sees without flaws. This careful planning is so that she can control people that this desire arises from her inner mental energy and from her introverted personality. And when her planning is complete, her extroverted personality and external psychic energy show themselves and she tries to attract the attention and control of minds and thoughts. So, the researcher sees that Amy has opposite energy and two conflicting characters who are interested in being isolated on the one hand and want to attract attention and play with people's thoughts on the other hand.
“ It really is true. It took this awful situation for us to realize it. Nick and I fit together. I am a little too much, and he is a little too little. I am a thorn bush, bristling from the over attention of my parents, and he is a man of a million little fatherly stab wound, and my thorns fit perfectly into them” ( Flynn 408).
Amy cannot understand reality due to schizophrenia and considers her illusion to be real. In her delusion, she sees Nick as someone she loves, and Nick feels the same way about her. Her interest in Nick is mostly due to the fact that she cannot bear to lose, because if Nick leaves her, Amy has lost to an amazing Amy. So according to her thoughts, she creates a scenario in her mind that Nick and I love each other. If a person is healthy, she realizes her illusion, but Amy, because she is sick, considers her imagination to be real, and only circumstances have caused them to eat each other. In this passage, she points out that she is better and more complete, that I have more than Nick and Nick less than me. she gives a reason for this thinking and says: I am violent because I have received so much attention. This is the reason she has given for her violence and she has shown herself to be innocent. And on the other hand, she points out to Nick that she is more sensitive because she has been harassed by her parents, and my violence upsets her. In this way, the people see her full right and Nick blames the work. “This self-esteem is due to schizophrenia because patients with schizophrenia consider themselves complete and best of all” (“Health Australia”).
“Amy: ‘What if your mom gets suspicious and comes up here and you`re found hiding me? It would be awful.’ His mother. I would die if his mother came up here, because she would report me immediately. The woman despises me, all because of that incident back in high school- so long ago, and she still holds a grudge. I screeched up my face and told Desi she attacked me (the woman was so possessive, and so cold to me, she might as well have)”( Flynn 416).
Amy always seeks to maintain her position with her thoughts and illusions and thinking that she considers herself the highest of all. The researcher tells: ‘if a person feels superior to himself or feels threatened by someone, he will take any action to protect his position.’ Due to hysteria and subsequent extroverted personality, she always likes to be the center of attention and the slightest misplacement bothers her. (“Health Australian”) Dezi’s mother did not give Amy a place because of her masterful behavior, and this angered Amy because she saw her out of her control. Therefore, she showed her inner mental energy and inner personality, and sought planning for Amy's mother. Because she has schizophrenia and is full of hallucinations, and because of this disease, she has insane movements. Punish Dezi and bring her to a lower level to make sure Dezi is under her control.
“ I do want to start over with the right man, the new Nick. Things are looking bad for him, dire. Only I can save Nick from me. But I am trapped” ( Flynn 418). Amy is a human being with two extroverted and introverted personalities with two opposing diseases and two opposing internal energies. Therefore, she suffers from personality instability, which has been associated with her since she was a child, and of course, the amazing environmental conditions and Datsen Amy have increased the conflict of mood and instability in her. In this way, due to complete introversion, she has always sought to plan for her behavior in order to keep people under her control. For this reason, Amy has a disturbed mind and always suffers from hysteria and schizophrenia. In her diary, she imagined herself as an amazing Amy and wrote her writings in line with Amy's amazing behavior. But in reality, she was an isolated person or someone who, while hating people, tried to tolerate people and monitor their behavior so that she could control them. And in this way, even if the reality was ruined in people's minds, she considered herself victorious because of her own delusion because the people were under her control.
The first two years of marriage, because she saw herself as perfect because she had a husband and had won over an amazing Amy, so her mind was a little calmer and she had less illness, but after losing her job and relocating, she became confused again. She was mentally ill and her illness manifested itself more. She became more isolated and suspected that Nick was out of control. Because of her arguments with Nick, she had illusions in her mind that Nick intended to harm her, and for this reason she began to plan for Nick's punishment, and as a result she hid
herself.
“I thought I could control Desi, but I can`t. I feel like something very bad is going to happen” (“English4 success. ru”, Flynn 418). when she felt that Dezi was going to harass her, with her logic and because of the illusions caused by her illness, she decided to acquit herself and blame Dezi. She began to have recollections of Dezi's misdeeds to make her look bad so she deserved punishment and Amy had to kill him in self-defense.
“No one has arrested me. The police have stopped questioning. I feel safe. I will be even safer very soon” ( Flynn 465). “I have a book deal: I am officially in control of our story. It feels wonderfully symbolic. Isn`t that what every marriage is, anyway?
Just a lengthy game of he-said, she-said? Well, she is saying, and the world will listen, and Nick will have to smile and agree. I will write him the way I want him to be: romantic and thoughtful and very repentant- about the credit cards and the purchases and the woodshed. If I can`t get him to it out loud, he`ll say it in my book. Then he`ll come on tour with me and smile and smile” ( Flynn 466).
Amy, the patient, now has peace of mind because with careful planning she has been able to prove her innocence and force Nick to continue living, so her internal energy is less active. She has achieved what she wants and she is in control of things. Amy, who was schizophrenia and always felt anxious inside, alleviated that anxiety by writing about life under her control. At the time of writing, she was writing about things she could not really reach, and they were for Amy Wonder. When she hid herself, she sought to control Nick and now that she has reached him and can impose whatever she wants on Nick, she continues to write her book with minimal stress. This is the life she has created for herself, the life she writes in the book called Amazing Amy. In fact, because of her delusions and the duality of her personality, she cannot separate real life from what she has made up in her mind, so just because everything is under her control and planning, she has a sense of victory.
“Nick still pretends with me. We pretend together that we are happy and carefree and in love. But I hear him clicking away late at night on the computer….” ( Flynn 468).“I try to hack in when he`s asleep (although he sleeps like me now, fussy and anxious, and I sleep like him)” ( Flynn 468).
Amy knows that Nick is afraid of her and does not trust her. Nick locks the room at night and chooses a password for his personal computer that Amy cannot unlock. "I can sleep well at night without anxiety," she says. Amy was not interested in Nick from the beginning because she does not love or trust anyone. She is just competing with the amazing Amy who imagines this competition in the unreal world of her mind, but in reality, she dislikes and even hates Nick because she sees him as dangerous to herself. Now she has completed her plan. She talks calmly about Nick. But in any case, she is sick and unconsciously becomes anxious because of her inner psychic energy and introversion, and thinks well of the computer. This is due to schizophrenia, which creates hallucinations and anxiety in her mind. But because she knows Nick is under her control, she can control this inner energy. “I am supposed to love Nick despite all his short comings. And Nick is supposed to love me despite my quirks” ( Flynn 473).
She says I must love Nick with all her shortcomings and she has to accept me. Amy finds herself completely right and unmistakable inside, which is due to her hysterical illness. If she feels otherwise and assumes that she is not being taken care of by people and the situation is not under her control, she will become anxious and schizophrenia and hallucinations will begin. The researcher believes environment and genetic play some roles to create personality disorder which according to, these create the psychic energy of individuals and consequently their extroverted and introverted personality traits, and if it is in conflict, it makes them sick.
Findings and Conclusion
Amy Dunne is described as a charming girl, intelligent who is able to play with people mind to control over them, and if she even suspects which people wronging in her, they will be condemned. All of these behaviors are due to her illness which is so dangerous as she will do absolutely anything, to get people to submit to her. Amy and Nick lose their job thus they move to Missouri without consulting Amy, Amy is psychologically stressed. On the other hand, she sees Nick with his affair. As a consequence, it stimulates her and she felt violence and think to make right. In the psyche of all human beings, there are introverted and extroverted characteristics, which due to the intensity of each of them, each human being has its own behavioral characteristics. Introversion and extroversion should not be too complete. Amy in this story has complete introversion and extroversion and as a child, she is sensitive to the amazing Amy and everything that is compared to her, and arouses her jealousy, makes her feel dangerous, stimulates her to react and protect herself by controlling and monitoring. Therefore, due to medical issues and the structure of the brain and genetics, and as a result of schizophrenia and hysteria, Amy has a disturbed mind from childhood, which causes her behaviors, and from childhood, due to the environmental conditions in which she was, caused her illness to become more active. The result is that Amy suffers from stress and delusions in adolescence and adulthood and cannot distinguish reality from dream. She is trapped between the world of real Amy and the wonderful Amy. Accordingly, Amy is defensive towards people and does not enjoy being with them, and because she does not find them trustworthy, she tries to get to know most of them, and among those who are simpler and easier to accept her words, she pretends that loves to connect with them and therefore keeps them to herself and her plans. Because she has always been known as a perfect human being in the amazing Amy story since she was a child, she sees herself as perfect and has the right to condemn anyone she sees as dangerous to herself, and to do whatever she wants. And the next problem with Amy's character was that she was jealous of anyone who looked superior to her and tried to get rid of her as much as possible. So, she felt weak because of her illness and the illusions she had in her mind and the high introversion she had with her smallest dislocations, and as the researcher read in previous chapters, she injured Dezi's mother for being arrogant towards Amy and having control over Dezi. Amy was able to control her illness and mood for two years when she got married because she, like Amy, had a wonderful wife and considered herself perfect. But her illness still existed and she was only temporarily extinguished. But after the changes in their lives, whether financially, in terms of job or emotionally, her illness has been reactivated. The result of Amy’s situation and plan is that, she becomes an amazing Amy with public attention so high control then perfect marriage as she wants even Nick be afraid her. the researcher has concluded that the reason for Amy's disorder is related to the environmental and genetic conditions and the structure of her brain that make her psychic energy and accompanied her from childhood, and only when she knew herself best, her illness subsided otherwise Amy's character was very dangerous. Because whenever she is upset and does not see the situation in her control, she commits criminal acts. The researcher mentioned that this paper is not perfect, however there are a number of societal problems that begin at the root of each child and, if medical issues are involved, can lead to illness. Surely there are many characters like Amy in the society who create insecurity in the society with crimes of harming people or murder, or cause unrest in their family with their doubts and illusions, and finally, family members also get into mental problems and They are mental. Because these diseases are not easily diagnosed and the sick person considers himself complete and right so that no mistake has been made by him and there are others who are guilty. It is difficult to diagnose the disease of these people because they often treat strangers very well because of their complete extroverted personality to attract attention, but if they see them above themselves, they try to withdraw or seek harm when the disease is more severe. Therefore, it is difficult for normal people to diagnose a sick person because these people are very smart and can have appropriate behaviors and control people as they want. And it can only be diagnosed when the disease becomes severe and leads to hallucinations and strange noises in these people, or the suspicion of people is so high that it leads to harming or killing ordinary people, which unfortunately in this novel Amy is so smart. She had carefully planned that she was noticed by the people and forced Nick to live with her while he was afraid of him. According to Jung's theory, each person has an introverted and extroverted personality, both of which are necessary for a balanced life, but if both of these are extremely perfect, the person will suffer from personality duality and schizophrenia. With this look at Jung's theory, the researcher hopes to open a new window into literature and try to find and solve behavioral problems with the help of literature. Thus, the researcher hopes that this paper be a good reference for everyone who has the same
analysis.
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