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 the Kennedy family, even going so far as to dress up and stage re-creations of JFK's final moments. Jackie had always been possessive of Marty and hurt others in order to keep sole possession of his attention. Marty once kept a lizard as a pet growing up, but Jackie flushed it down the toilet in jealousy. The rest of the family turned a blind eye to the level of the twins' relationship, which ended when Marty left for New York to attend college. 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.
             Adler saw personality as something established quite early in life. He believed the prototype of your...

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