Abstract
Jack, the protagonist of <Fight Club>, suffers from insomnia, and is tired of his daily routine in a capitalist society. After encountering his own alter ego, Tyler Durden, he founds the Fight Club in order to start a violent revolution in attempt to mock and resist the materialistic world.
 Jacques Lacan establishes three stages in human psyche: the Imaginary, Symbolic and the Real. Each stage explains the mechanics of human desires. Most of us experience the Imaginary, then transition to the Symbolic stage. However, incomplete separation of oneself from the Imaginary in transition to the Symbolic causes paraphilia, and absence of any separation from the Imaginary inflicts one with psychosis. <Fight Club> shows Jack’s psychological journey that travels from paraphilia, psychosis and all the way to entering the Real. Particularly, by portraying Tyler Durden and Marla Singer as two opposite forces around Jack, the film alludes to the stark contrast between the traits of psychosis and the Real. Furthermore, as a commercial movie from Hollywood, the film successfully packages its plot and characters into the three act structure and heroism, prevalent in Hollywood action movies, making its psychological theme more accessible to general audiences.
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