This article is the result of a study of the approach of Japanese animation director Satoshi Kona to constructing the image of trauma. The study was based on the animated series Paranoia Agent (2004). In this animated work, the mechanism of trauma and collision with it becomes one of the plot-forming elements and is of great importance for the further development of events, as well as for the development of individual stories of the characters. Moreover, the very embodiment of trauma in an independent image is also a subject that requires study. The theoretical basis of this article is the works of Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung. The psychoanalytic approach to studying the image of trauma in Satoshi Kon's work provides a deeper understanding of the nature of this phenomenon and its impact on both the life of an individual and the life of an entire group of people.
Satoshi Kon, anime, animation art, trauma, the unconscious
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