Iranian Association of Cultural Studies & Communication Cultural Studies & Communication 2008-5575 12 44 2016 12 01 Trauma Representation in “Super-Frog Saves Tokyo” Trauma Representation in “Super-Frog Saves Tokyo” 199 219 23153 FA Seyed Rahim Mosavi Nia Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz 0000-0002-0808-8743 Mahsa Dehaghani Ahvaz university Journal Article 2016 07 23   <br />This study aims to investigate the nature of trauma and its representation in "Super-frog Saves Tokyo," by Haruki Murakami. Psychoanalytically and in particular through the lens of Slavoj Žižek, the unexpected intrusion of the real into the symbolic order is called trauma, which gains meaning only in retrospect. Different subjects respond differently to their trauma. Some of them avoid their traumatic memories and so expunge traces of trauma by situating, in fantasy, the origin of loss elsewhere. In such cases subjects represent their trauma through narrative fetishism. "Super-frog Saves Tokyo" belongs to After the Quake (2002) collection of short stories, which is an indirect description of the traumatic event of Kobe earthquake. In the selected short story, Murakami makes use of the inherent duality of magical realism in order to depict the nature of trauma and its representation. This article is a case study that explores the paradoxical nature of trauma and its representa   <br />This study aims to investigate the nature of trauma and its representation in "Super-frog Saves Tokyo," by Haruki Murakami. Psychoanalytically and in particular through the lens of Slavoj Žižek, the unexpected intrusion of the real into the symbolic order is called trauma, which gains meaning only in retrospect. Different subjects respond differently to their trauma. Some of them avoid their traumatic memories and so expunge traces of trauma by situating, in fantasy, the origin of loss elsewhere. In such cases subjects represent their trauma through narrative fetishism. "Super-frog Saves Tokyo" belongs to After the Quake (2002) collection of short stories, which is an indirect description of the traumatic event of Kobe earthquake. In the selected short story, Murakami makes use of the inherent duality of magical realism in order to depict the nature of trauma and its representation. This article is a case study that explores the paradoxical nature of trauma and its representa https://www.jcsc.ir/article_23153_b39e0454a95c993bd9388d2605e035a2.pdf