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Rated: E · Interactive · Psychology · #2339469

Here I will talk about characters from films, cartoons and TV series and their psychology.

This choice: Pain  •  Go Back...
Chapter #3

Pain, the result of trauma.

    by: Winnie the Pooh Author IconMail Icon
"Each of us is the villain in the other's story."
Pierre Janet's theory of trauma suggests that traumatic events can fracture an individual's psyche, creating a dissociation from reality. This is seen in the way Nagato alienates himself from his feelings and adopts a cold and detached identity.

Traumatic experiences can create a sense of helplessness that leads to a fatalistic view of the world, much like that of Pain and many people who live in toxic and traumatic family contexts.

The cycle of war and destruction that Nagato has experienced has led him to believe that suffering is the only means to achieve peace, since no one can change the course peacefully. He has learned that this is the only way.

One of the key concepts of Pain is that pain leads to understanding and growth. This recalls the thought of Viktor Frankl, a psychologist who lived in concentration camps, who in logotherapy explains how suffering can give meaning to life if faced in a constructive way. (I repeat: a psychologist in concentration camps)

Pain, however, distorts this idea: instead of helping people find meaning in pain, he uses it as a weapon to force them to change. It is a radicalized vision of a principle that, in other circumstances, could be positive.

It is the product of his trauma, of war, of pain and desperation, which makes him a paradoxically human character. His psychology is a response to his suffering, but it is also a justification to perpetuate the same violence he has suffered.

Freud wrote that each of us projects onto the other parts of ourselves that we cannot accept or that we cannot resolve. Pain does just that, he projects his suffering onto the entire world in order to justify the need for violence, the only weapon he knows.

Naruto shows him that there is and always will be another way. Each of us, deep down, is the villain in the other's story. But what purpose do the villains serve if not to serve as a warning to us of what we can become if we continue to follow his same path?

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