Fight Club DID

In the 1999 movie Fight Club, the main character is experiencing symptoms that can be associated with Multiple Personality Disorder or Dissociative Personality Disorder. The narrator plays a man who finds the world around him and his own desires for happiness utterly in conflict.The movie places strong emphasis on the evils of modern consumerism, and adopts a “fight the system” attitude throughout. The setting is bleak and degraded – the main character, who remains unnamed for the entirety of the film, inhabits a city that seems perpetually dark and run down. The movie attempts to make a statement on the effects of society norms and “the system” on an individual’s pursuit of happiness; at its center, it uses dissociative identity disorder to do so. The narrator eventually meets Tyler Durden, a kind of personification of his own id. At the end of the movie, the twist is that narrators character and Durden are actually different personalities within the same person, in what is supposed to be a form of DID. The narrator portrays many signs of this psychological disorder. Some are amnesia, hallucinations, having different personalities, and depersonalization. The criteria for DID require 1) the existence of multiple "identity or personality states," each of which exhibits independent opinions, 2) that two or more of the subject's personalities are at some point in control, 3) amnesia of "important personal information," and 4) that symptoms are not caused by substances or medical conditions. Following these conditions, the movie's presentation of the disorder does seem to fit. “This is your life and its ending one minute at a time”. The first line of the movie not only sets the dark mood for the entire film, it also breaks the fourth wall and establishes a relationship with the audience directly.
The narrator is a white-collared employee of a nameless firm, plagued by insomnia and the feeling of being trapped. He medicates himself through consumerism; through the