American Psycho OCD Tweets

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
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 study of the Obsessive Compulsive Disordered nominal phrase complexity. Even Shakespeare would not have dared to go that far, even in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

AMERICAN PSYCHO

Bret Easton Ellis

Films 1 & 2

American Psycho (English audio. English subtitles) Uncut 102 min by Christian Bale From United Kingdom

5.0 out of 5 stars

What’s cooking in the financial Hell’s Kitchen

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 March 2005

Watch that film a second or a third time and enjoy the impossible meaning of it. The character is brilliant, cruel, inhuman, vicious, and perverse. He is a metaphor for the financial world of today: those who have the power of money can do all they want, including killing…

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Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

Written by Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, PhD in Germanic Linguistics (University Lille III) and ESP Teaching (University Bordeaux II) has been teaching all types of ESP

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