Mental Illness in a Post-Traumatic Discourse：

Abstract

Going through death experience of someone we love is one of the hardest experiences in life. The unexpected loss of loved ones commonly causes different kinds of trauma to their relatives. This research studies how characters from Haruki Murakami's masterpiece, Norwegian Wood (1987), react to the death of people they were once close to. In addition to that, it provides a psychological analysis of a number of the novel's main characters. The method employed in this study is psychoanalysis. It is used to describe the link between death and trauma. One of the expected results of the thesis is that if the death event is not healthy faced and accepted, a person will struggle to overcome its post-traumatic symptoms, which may lead to various mental issues. The present study shows the effects of loss and death on people's psychological status and the outcomes of trauma on behavior and personality.