In Mad Men's characters, their attempts to portray their perfect lives to the world is never totally successful because of deep feelings of insecurity and self hatred.
Don's paying a prostitute to slap him, Peggy's rejection and denial of Pete's child and Joan's hidden feelings about her rape by her husband, all depict a type of self malice, self-hatred and self-loathing. These feelings are all highlighted through Don's current jaded, pessimistic, alcoholic, cynical, misanthropic hatred of who he is and all mankind.
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