ABSTRACT
This article studies the process of rewriting the self through memory in Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels, The unconsoled (1995). The protagonist, Mr. Ryder, suffers from a trauma which leads him to lose a huge part of his memory and, thus, to face a dangerous identity crisis. The article coins the term of rewriting the self from Mark Freeman, the professor of psychology at College of the Holy Cross. It uses, also, Carl Jung’s theory of individuation, concentrating mainly on the idea of archetypes, to illustrate how the protagonist's unconscious follows Jung's archetypes in creating a fake identity. The archetypes that would be dealt with in the article are the persona, the shadow, the animus, the child, and the self archetypes. The article, also, follows John Locke's Theory of Human Identity to proof that the whole Identity and the memories that the protagonist has been remembering through the novel are mere inventions of his imagination. Trauma, in this article, is discussed as one of the great obstacles which faces the human mind. It affects the social, personal and academic life of the individual and it sometimes lead to a dangerous crisis in the human identity.
Keywords: Carl Jung, Kazuo Ishiguro, Memory, Trauma.