The Epic of Gilgamesh and Fight Club (a novel by Chuck Palhaniuk) show mentally unstable main characters with very strong and animalistic second halves. The psychic apparatus is made up of the most animal part of the conscious (the id), the organized moderator of desires (the ego) and the part of the conscious which aims for perfection (the superego). Tyler Durden is the identity of the Narrator while the Narrator himself is his ego and superego. We know that Tyler is the Narrator's subconscious creation to store his identity. The Epic of Gilgamesh is also about the main character's id, ego, and superego. Enkidu represents Gilgamesh's id while Gilgamesh himself represents his ego and superego. Both Enkidu and Tyler Durden are physical presences in each story, but they are actually the psychosomatic manifestations of Gilgamesh and the Narrator meant to contain the animal identities of Gilgamesh and the Narrator separate from the rest of their minds. Egos tend to listen to identity and Gilgamesh and the Narrator's egos are no different; it is their superegos that act differently from the superegos of mentally stable people. The Superego is the part of the psyche that moderates what the ego does. The Narrator and Gilgamesh's superegos do not moderate what their egos do as much as they should. Their egos follow their identity almost entirely: “Enkidu made his voice heard and spoken; he said to Gilgamesh: “My friend, why do you speak like a coward? And your speech was weak, and you tried to hide yourself” (Gilgamesh V 72). Enkidu pushes Gilgamesh into things that scare him. He is reckless and animalistic and tries to make Gilgamesh like him. If Gilgamesh didn't have such a strong identity, he would never find himself in the situations where Enk... middle of paper... them. Both Gilgamesh and the Narrator have a very strong and quite weak identity. the superegos. They need something in which to store their identity in order to create psychosomatic manifestations (mentally stable people do not need this extra "storage unit" for certain parts of their psyche). Enkidu and Tyler Durden are physical presences in each respective story, however. The Narrator and Gilgamesh become too dependent on their identities. When they lose the subconscious creations in which they store their identity, they collapse. They lose that whole part of their mind. An id is just as necessary as an ego or a superego. Gilgamesh becomes unrecognizable and the Narrator is sent to a psychiatric hospital. They both lose their minds since their psyches cannot function without their identity, but as Tyler Durden says: "Only when you have lost everything are you free to do anything" (Palhaniuk 70).