The Mind of Jackie
Jackie-O is the daughter of a wealthy Washington D.C. couple, the Pascals. She has a younger brother Anthony, and a twin brother Marty. Jackie and the other children were given all they desired materially growing up, but were neglected emotionally, which lead to feelings of inferiority according to Adler. Mr. Pascal was a workaholic and the mother had numerous affairs that eventually led to the couple splitting up. Jackie and her twin brother Marty formed a bond between them as adolescents that the rest of the family did not share. The twins would spend the days playing with a video camera, giving tours of the family mansion, pretending it was the White House and that Jackie was the First Lady. During their early teenage years, Jackie and Marty attended an Ides of March party. Jackie went as the former first lady, wearing a pink Chanel suit with fake blood and brains on the fabric as a twisted joke. The party was a traumatic experience for Jackie-O because the other partygoers were disgusted at her idea of humor and shunned her. Marty was the only one to comfort and befriend her, and his gesture sparks a sexual relationship with his sister. The twins indulge their obsession with each other and th . . .
Jackie is the ruling type of personality. I believe that Rogers’s theory best explains my characters behavior solely on the strength of his incongruence writings. This cycle is defenses and anxiety is part of Rogers’s explanation of psychosis. Marty and Anthony both attend very prestigious universities; all three children are fluent in another language and all three are also extremely talented at the piano. Increased incongruence leads to more situations that cause anxiety, and therefore more defenses. Marty arrived home on Thanksgiving a year later with a fiancée, and Jackie does literally everything in her power to destroy their relationship and get Marty back. When Marty attempts to leave with his fiancée the morning after thanksgiving, Jackie tricks him into reenacting JFK’s assassination one more time. A prominent and wealthy family, the Pascals seem to have placed importance on scholastic achievements and other intellectual pursuits. This “striving for perfection” as Adler calls it, is only half of his core personality concept, and Adler’s perfection is in a social context, not an individual one like Rogers. Jackie is bothered by society norms that frown upon sexual contact between siblings, so she explains her perception to him: that she and Marty are so much alike and emotionally connected due to them being twins that they belong together. Jackie’s feelings of inferiority may stem from the Ides of March party where she was shunned for her bad taste. Growing up in rich family with servants, Jackie was pampered quite a bit as young girl. She attempted to boil the water because there was “no more bubbles” and then poured the boiling water back in the plastic bottle which proceeded to melt into her skin giving her third degree burns. Perceptual distortion is a form of defense that reinterprets the situation to be less threatening. If she is not arguing with her family for something she wants, she is flattering and manipulating in order to get what she wants.
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