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
e 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 fiancee, and Jackie does literally everything in her power to destroy their relationship and get Marty back. Adler must be credited as the first theorist to include not only a child's mother and father as early influences on the child, but the child's brothers and sisters as well. Birth-order is another of Adler's theories, and Jackie fits into some of his firstborn child expectations. The first child begins life as an only child, with all the attention to him or herself. Adler believed that firstborn children feel "dethroned" with the arrival of the second kid, and become disobedient and rebellious. In Jackie's case, she was never an only child since she was born with a twin brother, but Adler's ideas still apply in her case since her and Marty were so close. The twins sexual relationship and obsession with the Kennedy's begins soon after their younger brother is born. The defenses were a concept that I began to see in my life unfortunately all too often after digesting Rogers's theory. Rogers made me analyze and understand my own behavior more effectively, and the same is true for Jackie's character. I was also able to think of many examples of observing incongruence in other people, and was glad to have a name for their behavior.
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Approximate Word count = 2507
Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page double spaced)
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