"Fight Club is most simply the story of a man who mentally splits himself in two. Fight Club begins with our hero's dissatisfaction with himself and his pathetic life. His newly sprung half is called Tyler Durden, and is everything the hero wishes he were. The irony is that he is physically the same man and therefore is what he wants to be, but cannot realize this and uses his alter ego to accomplish his goals. In the end Tyler gets out of control and his tamer half cannot get rid of him even though he no longer wants him. In the process of Tyler's development of his anarchist plans he gathers others to himself who are seeking someone to believe in. The concept of two forces present everywhere, completely opposite to each other yet balancing and enhancing each other. They cannot be separated because they exist together in comparison, and splitting one apart will only create the other anew. Although one force can take prevalence over the other for a short time, anything that is in a state of imbalance for long will cease to exist. Yin Yang is the split between the two parts of the main character. Our hero and his created other half Tyler Durden are complete opposites. Tyler is created on purpose to be everything our hero is not. Tyler is the Yang, "described as masculine, decisive, rigid, piercing, reversing, hard, strong, and overcoming. The Yin and Yang sides of him are both present, but he has been raised to repress his Yang side. This was caused by his family life, as "Tyler never knew his father." This is also the problem for other men who join fight club; "what you see at Fight Club is a generation of men raised by women" and his observance "I'm a thirty year old boy, and I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer I need." He is lost and does not know what he needs at this point in his life. It is at this point that he creates Tyler Durden, the Yang side of himself. Created is not the correct term, because Tyler is not "something from nothing" as most people think of Creation. Tyler is the emergence of the expression of everything our hero has learned to suppress. His Yin has been dominant in his life for too long and as a result, his Yang breaks free. Tyler takes control whenever our hero goes to sleep, and as he becomes more unbalanced he realizes "Tyler Durden is a separate personality I've created, and now he's threatening to take over my real life. The teachings of Fight Club encourage people to let go of their lives and possessions and stop seeking completion in order to realize their hopes. He observes of all his material possessions and his lack of happiness, that "the things you used to own, now they own you." "Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete" he begs as he splits himself into what he wishes to be. Fight Club provides its own explanation for this loss of religious beliefs. Our generation feels lost and feels that "we are God's middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention."In the book, the Fight Club has an incredible appeal to the lost generation thus described. The main reason for Fight Club is the disgruntlement of the generation. Tyler states it clearly saying "we are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we're just learning that fact." The men who join Fight Club feel that their lives have no meaning or value. We have a Great War of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression."Due to disillusionment with their current way of life, people decide that they have nothing to lose in attempting to cause change. The end goal of Fight club is to destroy modern society in order to recreate it. They believe that the men of their society are going to waste; "I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived, and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables." They envision a new world where technology is greatly reduced; "imagine hunting elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center." People are to function in small groups caring for themselves without aid of others. They should keep small tools (limited technology), but not be dependent upon them. The hope is that they will no longer need knowledge and learning, but revert to their natural form and live a simpler life. Thus the main goals and ideas prevailing in Fight Club are Taoist in philosophy, though you must view the movie or read the book in order to find out if their goals are realized and the world created anew."