Fight Club and Oedipal Obsession
The main point of this article is to convince, or inform the reader that the
narrator of the book Fight club tries to achieve his identification through the classic
Oedipal complex. The article then goes on to tell us that the true enemy of the
narrator in the book is not Tyler, but the Oedipal complex itself. All of the violence
that is brought upon the narrator through his Oedipal fantasy is there to fix him. All
of this violence allows the narrator to learn the meaning of his life; it allows him to
achieve the will to live. As the article continues the author says that the narrator
movements towards revolution are all based on Oedipal relationships between
fathers and sons. This article takes out quotes from the book that reference the
images of a father and the desire to be noticed by god. The article goes to explain
that these two are both crucial elements of the Oedipal complex. The article then
says that the only way for a son to seize subjectivity is to defeat his father. In relation
to fight club, the narrator is the son, and the only way for him to seize subjectivity is
for him to defeat Tyler, or his inner self. When this is accomplished then the narrator