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Fight Club
The 1999 film Fight Club is filled with Freudian references, especially those related to death wish, masculinity, and male sexuality. If Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and the narrator played by Edward Norton are indeed one person, then the film addresses the psychoanalytic elements at play in a fractured psyche. Death wish is one of the most poignant themes in Fight Club, which explores an ironic, postmodern violence that is directed against both the self and society. Masculinity and sexuality prove also to be problematic elements for the narrator. The Oedipus complex also surfaces, as it is implied the narrator kills his mother.
Aggression is one of the ways that the narrator can act out his homoerotic fantasies. The narrator feels a keen and poignant sense of alienation and isolation. His predictable life gives him such little pleasure that he develops pathological insomnia: for which he seeks treatment...
Because he remains unmedicated, the narrator's sleep comes naturally when it does come. The unconscious imagery that plays itself out becomes a manifestation of the narrator's suppressed wishes and desires. The suppressed desire to consume or have power over another man is acted out with emotional and physical intimacy with Tyler Durden. However, the death wish becomes predominant.
The concepts of id, ego, and superego play themselves out clearly in the consciousness of the narrator. The narrator's id is that part of him that desires the fight and the base pleasures that come from cathartic violence. The narrator's ego is Tyler Durden: who is essentially an alter-ego for the narrator. Durden gets the girl; he is suave, good-looking, and charming. Durden's masculinity outshines that of the narrator; and thus Durden is the idealized ego. The narrator's superego is represented by the overarching themes related to consumerism and the subsequent emptiness of American cultural values.
Tyler Durden, and the entire fight…
References
Fincher, D. (1999). Fight Club. [Feature Film].
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