In the case of Fight Club it's more like a split personality, like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The gothic double would be our unnamed narrator and Tyler Durden. From the beginning of the story you realize that the unnamed narrator is going through a serious identity crisis. You can see that he feels trapped in the ordinary, corporate world he lives in. Such an identity crisis is described as a very common cause of the appearance of a double. So, since the Narrator feels trapped in his own life with no escape, he actually unconsciously creates a double who would be Tyler Durden. Tyler will help resurrect him. Tyler is a repressed double, although it is evident to the Narrator himself, who primarily sees Tyler as a completely separate human being, unaware that Tyler is truly a part of his unconscious projected into his consciousness. Although Tyler is rebellious and destructive, destroying things in the Narrator's life to the Narrator's initial dismay, the Narrator begins to accept these losses as part of the process of becoming a new man. It is only when Tyler becomes too strong, and then Tyler begins to take complete control over the narrator's life, that the narrator discovers the need to fight against Tyler. The narrator already questions his own mental stability, now adding such a psychological double could be a big problem. Tyler really begins to possess the Narrator and