Dr. Hannibal Lecter Psychological Profile.
By James Carmody.
Disclaimer: I do not own Silence of the Lambs, nor the character of Hannibal Lecter, and I forfit any financial profit and/or payment for this- don't pay me for this.
Summary:Psychologial profile of Hannibal Lecter for my Theater II class of Acting II... set in his files in the prison he wound up in- a little experiment in terms of writing.
Dr. Hannibal Lecter is basically a highly immoral psychopath at best. He is highly intelligent, but totally devoid of any morality or moral roots/groundings, so he's very dangerous at best, at worst, he's absolutely deadly.
He seems to be completely devoid of any level of conscience or remorse for his crimes against his fellow man, which include cannibalism after murdering them.
He is, in short, therefore, a monster in human form, a human monster if you please.
He shows no hesitation at using someone else to further his own goals, and seems to perceive himself as a "higher-order level of human", almost therefore a corrupted understanding of anthropology in several ways… this is, sadly, commonplace with those with his peculiar psychological affliction: psychopathy- yes, he's a total psychopath, and loves to remain that way, or so it seems. He is, therefore, a very sad character who forces himself to remain happy, but inside I am convinced that he's in fact filled with an empty void deep in his person that nothing he does will ever fill. I wonder personally what could've happened to bring him to that degree of emptiness within.
He does show a degree of deceptiveness, and seems to see the idea of consuming someone as a level of "meeting them", in a personal way- this frankly reeks of insanity in several levels, not the least of the concept of eating someone as knowing them… to "know someone" is to intellectually know them, as a friend and colleague and/or as a customer of your artworks, whatever they may be; it is a "mind-to-mind" kind of matter, nothing to do with the body besides how the person appears physically in order to identify them. Besides, only a pervert would conceive of knowing someone as a sexual matter, he's worse, though, as he is liable to kill and eat the person, and in far worse health as far as biological behavior.
Dr. Lecter's chosen lifestyle is the thing that makes him get health-wise far worse, and his actions have messed with his head in a large number of ways, he may say he enjoys it, but I'm convinced from his mannerisms that he really is a sad individual who's lying to himself all the time, and there's a saying that if you lie to yourself enough you begin to believe the lies you tell. For him, the overriding lie is that he's a different kind of human being from his victims, who had just as much right to continue to exist as he does and did.
Make no mistake, Dr. Lecter is a murder and isn't fit for re-entry into society due to his horrendous behavior!
He seems to take great delight in horrible behavior outside the bounds of normal moral human behavior.