See page 215/16 of the Norton paperback Afterword, p. 166
16. If you read Freud's work carefully, you won't be surprised to learn that he lurks here and there in the foundation of Fight Club
See p214 of the Afterword and 140 and 134
15. Fight Club began as an experiment, a literary experiment born of cinema (in particular, the work of director/writer Orson Welles)
p213
14. One of the secrets of Fight Club is that it is a novelistic recreation/rendering/version of Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ozymandias
p. 201, Fight Club, 159
13. Fight Club is a love letter to Thanatos, the Greek daemon/personification of Death
See the death scene of Robert Paulson, Big Bob p. 177
p168/p.173
11. The Raymond Hessel chapter is an inspiring allegory for sophomore undergraduates everywhere!
p152 "Human sacrifices" euphemism!
10. It pays dividends to consider the politics of Fight Club--ultimately is PROJECT MAYHEM fascist, libertariany, anarchist, or it it better thought of as a violent form of collective existentialism
pp. 149-150
9. YOU ARE NOT YOUR NAME--Fight Club is a meditation on identity and alienation.
p. 143
8. Fight Club believes that Corporate America is weaving a mind-killing womb for narcotized, product saturated, non-citizen, non-sentient consumers
p. 137, 38 and 121 and 110-11
7.Anarchy emerges as a sub-theme of Fight Club.
p. 124
6. Palahniuk develops Masks as a key motif of Fight Club.
p. 118
5. Palahniuk is a master of black humor, of arch satire and comedy
p. 106 (on pathological sexuality)
4. Fight Club is an edgy meditation on auto-eroticism and narcissism
p85
