Psychological Abnormality In The Dark Knight

As a society, we are exposed to movies about heroes such as batman, superman, spider man, and many other more. They all fight to make their world a better place against an evil villain but we don’t tend to pay attention on the motives that the villain has in order to commit the crimes. The Dark Knight, is about Batman fighting the Joker whose plan is to destroy Gotham. What motives the Joker? What does he want? The theory that best explains the joker would fall under Psychological Abnormality.

The theory that best fits this Villain would fall into Psychological Abnormality studies have showed that sometimes people aren’t capable on showing empathy. That person can have a destructive superego meaning that they cannot distinguish from thinking bad and actually doing bad. Everyone at some point thinks about doing a crime but we just think about doing it. This would fall in Classical School theory, meaning that everyone has the ability to be a criminal it’s our conscious or the cons …show more content…
“Parental deprivation through absence, lack of affection, or inconsistent discipline stifles the proper development of the superego. In adulthood, the actor is unable to control aggressive, hostile, or antisocial id impulses.” This can clearly point out why the Joker might have had become a criminal and why he was very impulses and aggressive towards his victims.

After the movie we can see that he only care about the power and intimating people. We can clearly see this in the scene where he burns all the Mobs money. The Joker stated,” It’s not about the money…It’s about sending a message.” This clearly tells us his not driven by money or by power that money may give him. This makes the Joker an egotistical person that only cares about himself a nothing else. The Joker by burning all this money gave him an unpredictable characteristic making him a very dangerous