Ken Kaneki Essay

Ken Kaneki also known as Kuroneki, an 18 year old, who is a shy, kind and gentle boy is suffering from dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder. Dissociative identity disorder is a severe form of dissociation, a mental process which produces a lack of connection in a person’s thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity. It is characterized by the presence of two or more distinct or split identities or personality states that continually have power over the person’s behavior. There’s also an inability to recall key personal information that is too far-reaching to be explained as mere forgetfulness. Kaneki was a normal human being who was studying Japanese literature. He encounters
He then started hallucinating Rize, the woman who tired to eat him. This is the beginning symptoms of his disorder as auditory and visual hallucinations are one of the many symptoms. Shironeki hallucinates both Rize and Yamori later on. He even talks to himself about seeing things again and hearing voices in his head. Shironeki appears when he is showing his ghoul side and when he feels endangered, he is the stronger one. He appears many times, mainly during fights with other ghouls or investigators- those wanting to kill all living ghouls. Kuroneki transformed into Shironeki after the torturing. Dissociative may happen when there has been insistent neglect or emotional abuse. Another personality that has been introduced is Haise. Haise comes in when Shironeki is fighting off an investigator, Arima. He encounters Shironeki and they immediately engage in battle. Right as Shironeki thinks he will beat Arima is when Arima lunges his quinque- a weapon used to kill and end lives of ghouls. Arima stabs Shironeki right through the skull, stabbing his brain and left eye, this causes Shironeki to talk in incomplete sentences. Arima then stabs Shironeki through the other eye and Shironeki has a hallucination of seeing all his loved