Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-3173617-20151229210748/@comment-10733658-20151230191743

I honestly don't think Kaneki's father has any importance, sorry. It seems that Ishida was simply establishing a very classic Freudian kind of situation, with Kaneki's tragedy really beginning with the loss of his father at a young age.

Kaneki grew up without any sort of masculine figure in his life, attempting to reconnect through reading his father's books and putting major value on them. He was pretty much left to the mercy of the women in his life, with his mother neglecting and physically abusing him and later his aunt subjecting him to extensive emotional abuse.

Really, until he met Yoshimura, he had never had a masculine authority figure in his life. Yoshimura was his first "father" and later Arima became one to him as well, which may explain some of his choice to so heavily imitate Arima. Before these two, he was missing what some Psychologists believe is critical for the healthy development of a male child.

The role of Kaneki's father was not some mysterious past and big secret. It was the catalyst for his tragedies, and him lacking a key element in his development and life. He was likely simply a normal dude that loved to read, and his death started a series of events that have continued to haunt his son as an adult.