American Psycho OCD Tweets
9 min readDec 18, 2020
American Psycho is a legend and Bret Easton Ellis is its prophet. It happens when violence becomes the normal expression of a repressed Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in a human being, generally the result of some trauma in infancy or childhood. What’s more, Bret Easton Ellis’s style is unique in this shift from OCD to, in his case, complex nominal composition. Enjoy the trip in the films and some literary extension, and then a very close…