Grief and resilience: The individual emotional transformation in Kanae Minato’s Confessions

Bastomi, Naufal Adrian; Anam, Zuhrul

doi:10.15294/rainbow.v14i.29959

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Grief and resilience: The individual emotional transformation in Kanae Minato’s Confessions

Rainbow: Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies · Vol. 14 (2025) · hlm. 215–223

DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v14i.29959
ISSN: 2721-4540, 2252-6323
Terbit: 2025-07-31
Penerbit: Universitas Negeri Semarang
Bahasa: eng
Lisensi: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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This paper explores the emotional transformation of Yuko Moriguchi, the central character in Kanae Minato's Confessions, following the sudden loss of her daughter. Utilizing Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's Five Stages of Grief and Sigmund Freud's theory of defense mechanisms, the study investigates how grief manifests and evolves into various emotional and psychological states. Employing a qualitative descriptive approach, the research uses literary analysis to trace Yuko's journey through denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, alongside the deployment of defense mechanisms such as denial, repression, rationalization, sublimation, and projection. The findings reveal that the trauma causing sorrow is experienced in accordance with the five stages of grief, and successfully channels this sadness into behaviors that do not harm and are acceptable to society. The paper concludes that Moriguchi's actions reflect a human struggle for emotional transformation and survival after trauma.

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