Nietzsche & Fight Club

Fight Club is a movie about a man, played by Edward Norton, having a personality of another man named Tyler Durden being played by Brad Pitt. The man played by Edward Norton (whom I will call the man for the rest of this paper) is suffering from some sort of sickness (insomnia), which he describes as if “everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy”. Tyler appears as the man’s another personality while sleeping. The man declares that Tyler is a dream, a projection, a disassociative personality disorder, a hallucination. To be able to prevent Tyler from taking over at everything, the man asks Marla, the woman he love, to keep him awake.

Being the man’s another personality; Tyler asserts everything he wants over the man making the former superior to the latter. The two founded the Fight Club together and Tyler was the one who prepared the rules of the club: 1.) don’t talk about Fight Club; 2.) don’t talk about Fight Club; 3.) when someone say...