Fight Club: Carl Jung’s warning for a lost generation
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2024
- Fight Club came out in 1999 but its warnings about the modern world have remained remarkably relevant. It's a modern myth that holds many important lessons on Carl Jung’s Shadow Self, and the dangers of repressing our dark side.
According to the Swiss Psychologist Carl Jung, the shadow represents the unconscious parts of our personality that we don't acknowledge or accept, and includes negative traits such as anger, jealousy, and aggression. But it also contains enormous positive potential and many remarkable gifts that we’ve left behind in our childhood.
In Fight Club, the unnamed narrator is depicted as a passive character drifting aimlessly through life. The creation of the Tyler Durden character is an excellent illustration of Jung’s Shadow archetype, and how repressed desires and impulses can manifest in alarming ways. It also suggests how confronting and integrating these lost parts of ourselves is necessary for wholeness (what Jung called “individuation”).
The film also gives examples of a psychological process known as “shadow projection,” which happens when people attribute to others the very things they most want to deny in themselves. It occurs in individual people but can also occur in groups. When large groups of people (or entire countries) enact their shadow projections together, it results in what’s called “scapegoating,” and other unpredictable expressions of the “Collective Shadow.”
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Carl Jung, Fight Club, and its cultural Impact
01:32 - The Journey of the Fight Club’s unnamed narrator
02:10 - Who is Tyler Durden?
03:37 - An introduction to Carl Jung’s Shadow Archetype, the Ego, and the Persona
05:49 - The dangers of repressing the Shadow
07:28 - The Shadow and celebrity apologies
08:34 - The Shadow’s positive potential
12:27 - The Shadow as the abandoned and disowned self
14:25 - Shadow Projection and the Collective Shadow
19:40 - Until we make the unconscious conscious…
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This is the most thoughtful and well executed analysis of the shadow and of fight club I’ve ever watched! Thank you for sharing - I’m going to rewatch fight club this weekend and excited for your next video on how to do shadow work ! 🙏👤
Thanks so much my friend! That means a lot to me, coming from someone of your talents. I'm looking forward to the work you have in store on your channel as well! Take good care and big love to you and yours!
the best video
truly
Mee too.🔥💪
Indeed
Go watch younger views about the complexity of Fight Club. This Jung wanna be is someone who's just sharing what they interpret how parts of the movie follow old theory. Hey, eugenics inspired Hitler ("we must be more like the Americans" -Mein Kamph) and everyone blamed Hitler, but it took people to get behind theories, infuriate the disenfranchised,cause division, and good old fashioned "don't pay attention to the real problems"...soooo always be open to watching different sides. Don't just rewatch Fight Club (but do, it's amazing) watch many different theories. Jung0086 Nietzsche00747 says you suck!
Outstanding
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Indeed. A true gem.
Hi, Elson. I'm a holistic health specialist and was absolutely breathless at the depth and profound richness you have achieved through this gorgeously crafted gem of a video detailing the absolute most essential facet to the human experience that we must all be actively learning about, now more than ever. I will be sharing it with clients, collegues, and other members of my community. Cant wait to check out more of your content.
Wow, thanks so much, Myrna. Thank you for your wonderful and kind comment showing love and support, and thank you for the important work you do as a health specialist and healer. Big love to you and yours!
Fight Club and Revolver by Guy Ritchie are my two most favourite movies since I watched them from the 1st time and long after I discovered Carl Jung, I realised those two are also the mos Jungian movies I’ve ever watched,
Great video
I just watched revolver based on your recommendation, great movie, love the interviews to add to the point!
I used to think these videos were pointless to listen to (not you specifically, the general) as I watched them a lot when I was in my 20's. You've brought this back for me, and I can feel myself opening back up again from the knowledge you share. You're really good at taking stories and relating them. I appreciate this skill you have. Thank you
The author of Fight Club's birthday is February 21st, same as me. Fight Club is one of my favorite books, and I was talking about Carl Jung to a friend just yesterday. Imagine my surprise when a wild youtube video with a 21:02 length pops out of the algorithm talking about Fight Club and Carl Jung, from a youtube channel I forgot I promised myself I would watch more from.
Words will not express how grateful I am for this video. Thank you for taking the time to create this. I was not clear on how to approach shadow work and now I am.
The way you explain concepts resonates so well with my style of learning and understanding. I’m thankful for your channel. I look forward to more videos on shadow work and how to do it. 👤🙏
Your videos are always so well done! This was exactly what I needed to hear today! Thank you and I look forward to your shadow work video!
Thanks so much, my friend! I'm grateful as always for your continuing support, Daniel. Big love to you and yours
This is one of the best videos I have ever seen! Thank you very much.
This is the best breakdown I've ever seen. Great work
The best video I've seen in a long time. I already loved Carl Jung but you've put it clearly and beautifully. Definitely sharing this. Thank you.
Thanks so much, Inês! I'm so grateful for your support! Big love to you and yours
Outstanding and very thought provoking 👤. Makes me wonder if confronting your shadow could be the start of one’s hero’s journey. Maybe you’re afraid of your shadow, maybe you have doubts you can overcome it, but through time, practice, taking action, etc you confront it and grow.
Thanks so much, Streptomyces! Great point and well said. I think facing your shadow can definitely be an initiating event or 'call to adventure' that starts one's own hero's journey and exploration the darker unconscious side we all have hidden. Take good care!
It was for me. I had no idea where I was going and so much fear!! But once back up onto the surface after travelling "underground" for years in a shadow world I became who I was born to be. I now see my old life was truly insane and finally I came out well balanced and a productive individual. I spent the last 25yrs a social worker giving back to humanity and spreading kindness (and sometimes straight talk and direct guidance) to those in torment.
You dont overcome it, you absorb in and channel it into either the destruction of evil or the perpetuation of profound good. Even if the only profound good you are perpetuating is the preservation of your own life.
But first, you have to decide what vice and virtue actually are, at least, to you, because historically, "virtue" has been defined in such a way that it seems to condition potential prey to make them more vulnerable to predation, while "vice" is defined as certain human characteristics that, if weaponized, could defend/inoculate said prey against predation (both from becoming predatory and from falling victim to malevolence) and perhaps further their own life's purpose while helping them acquire real power as opposed to the superficial, and fleeting satisfaction that comes from substituting personal power for the domination of others.
In closing, I do apologize, I just don't know how to not say lot word when few word do trick...
I m loving your channel, the insight you bring in just awesome. Amazing movie explanation, seems like you admire Carl Jung a lot. 😊
So wonderful to have the pleasure of another phenomenal production from you Elson ❤❤❤ thank you so so much for sharing this with us all ^-^ !! I appreciate the time you have taken to create this as you have. It is extremely insightful how you revealed the importance of not repressing our shadow side. 😊 Thank you for the very important and timely reminder here! 🤗🤗🤗❤❤❤😊😊😊 👤
You're the best, N A! It's comments like yours that inspire me to keep creating content. Big love to you and yours
@@ModernIntuitionist As are you Elson, you too are the best 🤗🤗🤗❤❤❤ and have a profound impact! You inspire me and so many of us ( more than you truly know 🤗🤗🤗). I am forever grateful to have come across you and know you!! ☺☺☺🤗🤗🤗❤❤❤ That is so kind of you, sending lots of love, light and good vibes on over to you and yours also ^-^!! 😊😊😊❤❤❤☺☺☺🤗🤗🤗
This is not the first time that what I’m thinking about, looking into or the questions I have happen to be answered in your new videos.
Just a few hours ago I talked to my younger brother for the second time about the shadow and shadow work. The first time to introduce it to him, I scrolled and scanned youtube for 2 hours to find a video that explains it well and doesn’t bore him… And you did it again!!! Thank you so much, again and as always! Keep up with your amazing work! ❤
P/s: does your life path number happen to be 6 from 42?
Wow, that's wonderful M Vu, thanks so much for taking the time to share that! I'm so grateful for your continued support for my channel. Big love to both you and your brother! PS. I am a 26/8 path.
@@ModernIntuitionist somehow it just makes sense! ;)
Wow, excellent!
Thanks for giving words and images to my thoughts. Great essay.
The effort put into this video is amazing! Thank you.... It's incredible how much useful knowledge you placed in as entertainment. Kudos!
Thanks so much!
Spot on as always. Thank you ! 👤
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this channel is really different, because it does not give you only facts, it helps you think and DO SOMETHING. thank you modern intuitionist.
Great video on so many levels. Great insight! Great presentation! Great narrating voice.
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Well done! This channel keeps getting better and better....👤
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PS. Just noticed that "spacegoat" is an anagram of "scapegoat" which is really clever, love the name!
@@ModernIntuitionist I realized that myself a few months ago, though I've been using this "nom de youtube" for years. It was purely unintentional. Curious, though. I was just trying to pick a funny name, and that one stood out.
You are Changing lives, keep it up g.
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Thank you. 🗣️ A wonderful lesson in genuine self acceptance and authenticity. 👤
I realized how deep you can go into a movie or a concept. This is a kurzgezat level video in terms how simple yet so deeply and well explained.
Wow, thanks so much!
This work has been such a huge part of my own personal transformation. It’s become a working part of my everyday thinking. I don’t know if it’ll save the world but it certainly has helped to save me . Your videos are excellent and so well produced. Thank you for opening up both the light and darkness in myself . You give such a great understanding of what this is all about. Thank you.
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@@ModernIntuitionist no problem. We are all on this journey together. It’s a true pleasure. Looking forward to more .
This flim open my eyes
Yeah. This is amazing work. Phenomenal.
Wow, While watching this breakdown some of the very crucial things discovered about myself and again I'll watch this movie. Thanks for creating a great provoking video, outstanding analysis.
Thanks so much!
awesome video, I love Jung theory of the shadow
now i love more this move than before, thanks for this video. nowadays im really into shadow work and conecting with my own shadow.
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You've got a good voice, I enjoy listening to your content. 👌
So insightful!
This was amazing. I had to subscribe
fantastic presentation!!
What a piece of beautiful art this video is! Love it! Thank you 🙏👤
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yes true
Love it. I'll see you in the next video, Elson.
Haha, thanks so much, Yohanes! I look forward to seeing you there too, I appreciate you my friend
@@ModernIntuitionist You're always welcome, mate.
I love your channel! Keep up the good work!
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☠️👌 Awesome video man... I loved Fight Club but never seen all that wisdom in it... been doing a lot of Shadow Work in recent times - gotta re-watch this movie & your video again! Great work man! 🤘Steve
Thanks so much, B2B! I'm so glad to hear it, it's worth the rewatch. Thank you for your continued support and take good care, my friend!
@@ModernIntuitionist I re-watched the movie AND this video man - intriguing stuff!... Got a whole new understanding of it and even my own Shadow! 🤘Steve
Love it! Great videos as always
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Great video!
I'll so watch that movie 🎬 !!
Thank you always for such precious information 💖 👥
Thanks so much, Yayoi! Great to hear from you, I hope you're well
Your editing is Excellent you this video deserve Millions of views
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This has gone so Deep and Mesmerizing
Really nice video essay. Well done
Thanks so much, Simplejackization!
Great analysis 👤❤️👍🏻👏🏻 Thank you 🙏🏻
You're so welcome, Kamila! Thanks so much for your support, I appreciate you!
Wow; AWESOME video!!! Love this movie: Story! Fantastic!!
Reminds me of The book that I read: The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz. Wow; in conjunction w/ Your analysis! Fantastic!!
A super well-crafted and produced video Elson. To be honest, I didn't like the Fight Club film as much as most people, in spite of its cult-classic status, (perhaps because of its very depressing atmosphere), but I think your analysis of the film was probably the best one I've seen. There is definitely a "dark side" to every human being, though perhaps what is considered dark and light can depend on the definitions of modern society. It reminds me of the David Deida's book the Way Of The Superior Man, in which he talks about how women are often attracted the fighter and warrior within you. In most scenarios, fighting is a negative thing, but it can also be very positive when force is used to defend what you love. In most historical times, men needed to be both creators and destroyers in order for society to thrive; they needed to build the structures and infrastructure of their tribes, but also needed fight and destroy what threatened their peoples. Perhaps there is a lot of truth in that many men feel a malaise in the modern world because this fighting ethos and competitive spirit is so repressed and not allowed a positive and constructive outlet, especially with the modern social trend of attacking anything and everything related to masculinity. Anyway, this was another amazing vid Elson, really looking forward to your next video on shadow work!
Thanks so much, Jonathan! I always enjoy and look forward to reading your thought provoking comments. It's a fascinating topic and it does strike me that the modern world represses many elements of masculinity in the collective shadow.
I think a big thing that's missing today is the loss of 'rites of passage' where elders would mark key points in life to help initiate members into the next stage of life. Chuck Palahniuk also has some very interesting things to say on this topic here, if you haven't seen it, I found it worthwhile: th-cam.com/video/GCuSDH-YEKI/w-d-xo.html
Take good care, and I'm looking forward to your next video as well!
Another great video, my friend 👤
Thanks so much, my friend! Great to hear from you, I hope you're well. As always, I appreciate your support and the excellent work you're doing on your own channel.
Great video
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.
Beautifully said, Camilla, thank you!
Great work!! 👤
Thanks so much, Nisha! I'm so grateful for your continued support
Well done
Lots of meat here! Going to listen again, take notes and discuss it with some insightful friends. Thanks
Thanks so much, Beth! I appreciate you and would love to hear how your discussion went! Big love to you and yours
yin and yang are both present in our lives. you cannot appreciate light without darkness. good and bad are two sides of the same coin. the idea is to live above the opposite. thanks for this.
Beautifully and wonderfully said, Kryus! Thanks so much for being here and for taking the time to share your wonderful insights
Great video! The scary part to me is that all of that is great and interesting but it doesn't change that when they spread fear through media (like it happened with that Covid stuff) people just follow without even questioning it. Humans are being programmed to not think for themselves and I don't know if that can change. Maybe it's not meant to change are the spirits we are are here to learn and grow. So we need that contrast to do so. Hopefully the vibration will raise slowly and things can shift.
Your comment alone , PROVES that not everyone can be programmed to “not think for themselves” .
The game the elite play best , is convincing people like you and me , that we are alone and marginalized.
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Watched hundred fight club analysis and self improvement aka masturbation videos on yt came to say this is the one the one that really have something to say so underrated gj man
beautifully presented
Thanks so much, Davis! I appreciate you
👤So impressed with this channel. I believe your videos are doing a lot of good, & you knocked it outta the park with this one. Thank you for your efforts!
You are kind of person, I would like to be friends with and discuss such topics till I die. 💯
Absolutely Awesome ❣️
Thanks so much, Sandra! Big love to you and yours!
Many thanks, now I better understand “The shadow knows”👤
Haha, thanks so much JP! "Who knows what lurks in the hearts of men..." I appreciate you!
Great channel
Thanks so much, Shekhar!
I like the audio of this video. The other videos have a low volume even though I'm on max.
Bravo man 👏🏽
Appreciate it
Thank you Tzza!
Very well made and appreciated content.
I plan to make a video on Jungian archetypes in fight club.
Thanks so much, Daemon Philosophy for your very kind comment. What a great name you have, I love it!
Fight Club had a big impact on me when I first saw it years ago, and I believe is very rich with potential for interpretation through Jungian archetypes. I look forward to your take on it!
Wow! I just subscribed.
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Nailed it!
🗣Yes!! Thank You!! Sorry I’m late, been out enjoying the super bloom😉
You are right on time, Lisa! The super bloom is a rare event I'd love to see some day as well. You're too awesome, thanks as always for your continued support!
Some time ago I decided that I wanted to master my subconscious since it's in control of 98% of my life.
The best decision I've ever made....and yes there have been times I've driven myself to the brink of madness trying to understand and get the full cooperation of my subconscious.
But one of the things I realized early on is that it's of absolute importance to have a strong healthy shadow.
You need it to balance yourself out and you need it when you need to get some serious shit taken care of that only the shadow can handle....my handle name can give you a glue as to what I'm referring to.
I see soo many people with big successes and yet you can tell right quick thier clueless of who they really are. At some point they're put into a situation where they'll need to relay on themselves and they will have no clue who they are or what to do.
That is a darkness I'm completely unwilling to entertain.
Is it strange that when I picked out my son's name, it was Tyler? I thought it was simple, bland, a tabula rasa, he could create his own legacy, and write himself into it. Or perhaps all of that was "just" synchronicity?
I can't fathom why people are terrified of their potentiality for malevolence. The only thing that defeats monsters are monsters.
so much truth u revealed so much things to us
Thanks so much, Glodean!
What's weird is that my shadow is weakness itself. I do MMA and consciously choose to be tough and savage but it's the light self that has been repressed for me. Its the softness I was born with that I reject. It's always weird learning about shadow work because they always describe it as your darker part
this is the most important video a human being can ever watch
A great book, fantastic movie, and it inspires and spans all generations. Truly one of the best characters, most interesting premise, and thoughtful movies of all time.
awesome
Brilliant!
Thanks so much, CD! I appreciate you
@Modern Intuitionist I played it to clients during group therapy, and they all really appreciated the content and messages it conveyed.
👤 Great video, food for thought, I will definitely reflect on my shadow side.
🖤 no shadow emoji😅excellent expose on fight club. Think it’s time for a rewatch
This was powerful
Everyone should watch this video, then watch Fight Club and then watch this video again. Everyone!
Im stunned 😮
There are very few narratives told in the 2nd POV, but I think it is the deepest of the 3 POVs...I recognise this as a middle child and a writer. It is a difficult but powerful position. I recently wrote a letter to my👤; I asked why she likes Disneyland and I don't.
Wonderfully said, Rory! Thanks so much for taking the time to share. I appreciate you!
Yes. And thank you.
Thanks so much, Forge Ahead!
Amazing
Thanks so much, Lebo!
This is exactly what we all experienced from 2020-2022...global shadow maddness....but who exactly were the perpetrators? or were we all equally responsible for the utter maddness?
👤 Excellent!
Thanks so much Justrose! I appreciate you!
It was a great book before it was a great movie. I feel like the original ending alludes to the idea that, not only Tyler, but all of the characters that he was interacting with were also imagined. If you haven't read the book, you should.
Wow!
The movie collateral is another film that fits well with Carl Jungs Shadow. I recommend people watch this also.
Mr.Robot portrayed the collective shadow perfectly. With the line the Racist, Sexist, Phobia soup we've been drowning in
WOW...
Just that
👤An idea poorly executed is a lie. This is extremely well executed and for that reason there is so much truth within it. I had a personal painful realization days ago that it take enormous pain, mainly self inflicted, for us to open our eyes and see the world as it is and not the one packaged and sold. Our current world is so much of a reflection of the ideas within both the movie and the insights of philosophers of days past. This also, in my observation, shows the power of stories. Not a lot of people take time to read or understand philosophies as it can be extremely boring to learn in the format it is often presented and sold. Extremely entertaining and engaging stories can pack so much wisdom within it while making it digestible for the masses in a way other formats fail to do. The stories just take far more energy to create and execute well, but the end result can be well worth it if done well. Keep up the amazing work! Keep taking your time to create your videos as the quality you produce as a result is far more worth it and will have a longer shelf life to impact generations to come.
Thanks so much, my friend! So eloquently said as always. I completely agree, it does take pain, struggle, and discomfort to see the world more clearly, as you've said. I'm so really grateful for your kind words and continued support for what I'm doing. I'm also looking forward to what you have in store on your channel as well, and can't wait for the stories and maps you'll be presented. Big love to you and yours!
👤 I can't believe i missed this one, but maybe i was meant to see it today. My brain is a bit overwhelmed by ideas inspired by this and the shadow work video now.
Grewt video 😊
I appreciate you as always, Moon! Thanks so much
👥Shadow and Anima; I think Marla is not real either, she is his Anima. Great video, well explained.
👤Thank you
Thank you, Leo!
I think a good example of this is Light Yagami from Death Note, if you know you know.
👤 Thank you for everything you do.
You're so welcome, Marcy! None of this would be possible without support from kind and wonderful people such as yourself. I am so grateful for your continued support for me. Take good care!