American Psycho

“There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman some kind of abstraction but there is no real me only an entity something illusory.”

In our lass class discussion we touched on the Film American Psycho.

We once again discussed the difference between self-identity and social identity.

Self-identity is the verbal conceptions we hold about ourselves, and our emotional identification with those self-descriptions.
Social Identity is the expectations and opinions that others have of us.

The subject (Patrick Bateman) in this movie seems to have control of his self-identity. He has constructed an “idea” of who he is and wants to be. He represents himself as a materialistic, self absorbed and shallow human being. But acknowledges there is not real side to him.
“There is no real me there is an illusion”