Ethical Lingua: Journal of Language Teaching and Literature
Vol. 9 No. 2 (2022)

Main Character's Traumas in Kiyoshi Matsuda’s Re-main Anime: A Psychoanalytic Study

Nurul Septianingtyas (Universitas Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka Jakarta, Indonesia)
Ayu Putri Seruni (Universitas Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka Jakarta, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
26 Dec 2022

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine a systematic study, reality versus neurosis and fixation on trauma contained in the main character of the anime RE-MAIN. The main character of the anime Re-main is Kiyomizu Minato. Kiyomizu Minato is a Yamanami High School student and water polo athlete. Minato has a pretty good performance ability. Yamanami High School is door to Rikka Academy. Minato before enrolling into Yamanami High School, he had already apply to Rikka Academy. Rikka Academy is famous for being an elite school for literature and martial arts.This is motivated by traumatic events that are around the environment and the people closest to them. In the last two years, there have been many variants of Covid-19, a natural disaster so that the incident caused a loved one to leave him. However, trauma in the film RE-MAIN uses the theory of Bessel A van der Kolk and Alexander C. McFarlane both from a systematic study, reality versus neurosis and fixation on trauma. This research method used is descriptive qualitative with content analysis technique with literary psychology approach. From the result of the analysis, it is known that in systematic study of trauma, it is found that there is an initial onset of trauma, reality versus neurosis, it is found that there is a daily reality and there is often a sense of anxiety disorder, and fixation on trauma results in a feeling of being obsessed with the trauma.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

25409190

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Ethical Lingua is an online academic journal published by Universitas Cokroaminoto Palopo. The journal publish scholarly articles on the scope of Language Teaching, Learning, and Assessment; Language Curriculum and Material Development; Linguistics and Applied Linguistics; Cultural Issues in ...