Dissociative Identity Disorder In Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club

The film Fight Club, based on Chuck Palahniuk’s novel represents dissociative identity disorder throughout the main character (the narrator), who for the majority of the film was namelessly though referred to himself as “Jack” on a few occasions. The character is suffering from anxiety and depression thus bringing forth insomnia, as a response he tries to immerse himself with consumerism. Seemingly, nothing could help his problems until he met, “Tyler Durden”, a free spirited and impulsive person, in which he soon “moves in with” after his apartment mysteriously catches fire. Upon living together the commencement of Fight Club – the gathering of men expressing their entrapment of their day to day lives by brawling with one another – takes place. (Lee, 2010) As this continues, the narrator becomes least attached to the material obsession from his past life or reality. (Lee, …show more content…
Time is elapsed to some extent when the narrator captured and shot by Tyler though in actuality, he shoots himself, killing Tyler and freeing himself. In formal terms, dissociative identity disorder (DID) is when an individual has two or more distinct personalities or selves, each has its own memories, behaviors, and relationships. (King, 2010) In retrospect DID is the new term for multiple personality disorder. Fight Club is considered to be a depiction of the disorder though the deliverance is in fact inaccurate in more ways than one. If the diagnosis states that one must adhere at least two personalities, the main character has an inadequate amounts of personas. Additionally, the narrator Tyler lived were too intertwined with one another’s to be considered