Oscar Nicolás Reyes Roa

Abstract

The present paper identifies and interprets Chuck Palahniuk’s novel, Fight Club from the perspective of Jung’s process of individuation as the driving force for the unfolding and evolution of the narrator and the shadow’s characters. This relationship is evidenced in the verbal material and the events that take place in the novel where key elements of Jungian psychoanalysis such as the psyche, the unconscious, the collective unconscious, and the archetypes play an important role, as well as recurring themes like sacrifice, rebirth and religion. These are also analyzed and taken into account in the different stages that take place during the process of individuation.

Keywords

shadow, anima, haiku, sacrifice, rebirth, religion, project mayhem, collective unconscious, Self, divisio, separatio, solutio, psyche, transformation

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