Psychoanalytical Study of the Main Character’s Personality in the Movie 'Fight Club'

Abstract

The present study entitled “Psychoanalytical Study of the Main Character’sPersonality in theMovie ‘Fight Club’” was carried out to identify the aspects ofpsychological statein the movie’s main character who had severe insomnia andanxiety problems. The identification is done on the basis of the theoretical premises ofSigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Jacques Lacan. I used descriptive, narrative methodwhich is suitable for literary criticism in this study. I collected the dialogues, events,behaviours, mentality and thoughts in which the main character is involved. Iarranged them according to the different aspects of psychoanalytical theories ofdifferent psychologists. Then I briefly analyzed,how the collected data is related tothe particular psychoanalytical theory and how those things show or relate to thepersonality that the main character carries. I also looked into the relationship of themain character with the female lead. The findings show that a lot of repressedthoughts, feelings and desires were responsible for the main character’s weirdbehaviours which include both sexual andthe non-sexual ones. This thesis has been divided into five chapters. The first chapter isintroductory in nature which deals with background of the study, statement of theproblem, rationale of the study, objectives of the study, research questions,delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. The secondchapter incorporates the review of related literature. This chapter deals with review ofthe theoretical literature, empirical literature review, implication of the review of thestudy and conceptual framework. The third chapter deals with the methods andprocedureof this study. It consists of design and method of the study, sources of data,sampling procedures, data collection tools, data collection procedures and analysisand interpretation procedure. Similarly, chapter four encompasses analysis andinterpretationof data and a findings’ essay. Finally, the chapter five deals withconclusion and recommendations of the study. And in the final section, references andappendices are included