Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-79.112.178.71-20150820121032

Sasaki Haise is Kaneki Ken with amnesia. They are the same person; this fandom largely misconstrues the psychology Ishida puts into his work - much being inspired by Jungian psychoanalysis. The "Kaneki" in Sasaki's mind initially manifested as his "Shadow" (read Carl Jung's work on the topic, incidentally Ishida directly name drops him in ch.49) Some of you may recognize this concept of the "Shadow" from the Persona series (incidentally, tarot numbers are also associated with Jung's work, which is why they are found in both Persona and Tokyo Ghoul.) It was the seething culmination of all his repressed insecurities regarding his past - which is why it appears as a tortured version of his past self. He kept rejecting it despite its pleas to be acknowledged - which only served to exacerbate the Shadow's agitation. There is a phenomena in which a person can be "possessed" by their Shadow if it is rejected too much and it occurs during a time of vulnerability and mental duress (see: chapter 7 of :re.) He subconsciously wants to regain his memories (as Donato confirmed) which is why his Shadow wants "his" body back. Once Haise acknowledges the "Kaneki" within - he finally begins to experience flashbacks. After he stopped running from his past, the floodgates opened. One thing people fail to grasp is that the "Kaneki" in Haise's mind is a tulpa: no different from Rize or Yamori. It is NOT a "split personality" - read a book, dissociative identity disorder does not even work this way. It represents his past, much like Rize represented his ghoulhood or how black haired Kaneki signified his humanity.) Read chapter 136 in TG - it is the same thing. The Rize and Yamori tulpas were trying to "take" Kaneki's body, just like his Shadow was. Do you people not realize how pointless Sasaki's amnesia is if he has some split personality that knows everything? It makes Sasaki's existence completely redundant. This is why "Kaneki" (which is symbolic to his past self, no different than black haired Kaneki in ch. 140) told Haise that the more he remembers, the more his identity will fade. Why? Because the lack of memories are the ONLY factor separating Kaneki from Sasaki. Hinami made it clear in ch. 30. Sasaki implied it again in ch. 33 saying he can't "become" Kaneki without memories. For the last time, Sasaki Haise is just Ken Kaneki with amnesia.