Talk:Floppy/@comment-58.10.221.97-20150824095834/@comment-58.10.221.97-20150824115135

Andy here, and actually, we don't know that for sure, if spiritualism isn't involved. Tarot cards, talkings of Sasaki being a vessel, Kaneki being a soul, even if it can be dismissed as pure symbolisms right now, they are still there. I've actually studied the correlation between psychology and spiritualism out of pure interest, and I'm pretty sure Jung's name was dropped at some point in this series. The Shadow self, or the ego, is symbolised through Rize, Yamori, Kuroneki, and now Shironeki. We have no symbolisms of a Higher self as of yet, or that I could find, and this is digging into spiritualism theories.

Also, I'm pretty sure somewhere in the manga, there were implications of qinque's having a consciousness, even if they were used as a red herring, you never know, this is Ishida. He can pull anything and have you completely dumbfounded and struggling to find links between words from 100 chapters back. We don't even know where Ghouls themselves come from, for all we know, and this is just an assumption, they could have been assosciated with demons and such since ancient times, linking back to spiritualism.

I considered that Kaneki to have "died", but not in a literal sense, please excuse my lack of clarification. The difference between his "death" and Amon's propsed death are different. Kaneki died as a half ghoul, but came back. It is possible Amon died as a human and was turned from a corpse into half ghoul, hence the deformed regeneration.

I won't flame you, I enjoy people contradicting me and telling me about things I haven't considered. This is what a fandom is for; logical exchanges and debates, not flame wars and fanboys who simply jump on the bandwagon over the perceived notion that something of this story is badass (Shironeki) and that without it, the story lost it's tone.

Also, we have to take into account that the mind is much stronger than the body, i.e. placebo effect. Mind over matter, it has been discussed that if Sasaki wanted, he could have easily remember Kaneki, however, it is the fear and stress he placed on himself that keeps his blockage active. This is why I don't neccesarily think it is MPD, but more like pretending you're someone you're not, or as the Snake symbolism has shown us in recent chapters, that he has shed his old personality and taken on a new one. People do this, they change over time. Even if memories were to come back, it would not snap a person back into the same old individual, meaning that the Kaneki we know wouldn't instantly return, but he wouldn't remain as Sasaki either, because he'll have the combined knowledge and experiences of both personas.

Anyways, I'm out for now, please let me know if there are any more holes. :D