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The movie Fight Club is a study in the psychological underpinnings behind the amount of violence or pain, internal or external, a person will endure when trying to find a sense of identity within himself. Fight Club takes a group of people looking for their identities. They may be searching for identities to get over personal crises in their lives, but they will fail to find what they are looking for, in a true sense. Through its characters, the film epitomizes the psychological issues surrounding identity crises as they relate to issues such as trust vs. mistrust, autonomy vs. shame, intimacy vs. isolation, and integrity vs. despair. Bibliography lists 7 sources. JVfiteclu.rtf
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find a sense of identity within himself. Fight Club takes a group of people looking for their identities. They may be searching for identities to get over personal crises
in their lives, but they will fail to find what they are looking for, in a true sense. Through its characters, the film epitomizes the psychological issues surrounding identity
crises as they relate to issues such as trust vs. mistrust, autonomy vs. shame, intimacy vs. isolation, and integrity vs. despair. Identity Crisis
One of the main characters in the film is Tyler Durden, played by Brad Pitt. Kevin Alexander Boon Durden writes that the movie
"addresses the identity crisis of white, heterosexual, American men in the late 20th and early 21st centuries who grew up in a paradoxical cultural environment that makes heroes of aggressive
men while debasing aggressive impulses. What is explicitly asked of these men contradicts what is implicitly expected. Those behaviors that yield the greatest reward are in direct opposition to
cultural rhetoric" (Boon 267). The student may want to state that the rhetoric is that every acceptable man be gentle and loving,
whisper sweet nothings, carry a womans purse in a store, and change a babys "poopy" diapers (and be able to say the word, "poopy" without blinking an eye). At
the same time, culture explicitly promotes the idea of a normal man as someone who works in an office sitting at a computer every day, but who can get up
out of his chair and save the world single-handedly. A group of real men did go as far as crashing an airplane, killing themselves and everyone on board when
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