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Via Stuart Roberts Online, Galvin P. Chow explains that Fight Club is really Calvin and Hobbes all grown up (the link is currently Farked so you'll have to settle for this snippet for now):

Picture this: a hyper, self-absorbed child initially concocts an imaginary friend as the ideal playmate, to whom more realistic qualities soon become attributed. This phantasm becomes a completely separate personality, with his own likes, dislikes, and temperament—and the imaginer and the imagined clash and argue constantly, though remaining fast friends. This pattern continues to the point where the child begins to perceive what was originally mere fantasy to be reality.

Just as Calvin has an imaginary jungle-animal friend named Hobbes, whom everyone else believes to be nothing but a stuffed toy, “Jack” in Fight Club has an imaginary cool-guy friend named Tyler, whom no one but Jack can see.



"I want you to hit me as hard as you can!"

(Image courtesy of Eugene.)