Reflection

My Critical Research Analysis paper was to analyze an author’s critique of society through one of his writings while drawing upon it with a Freudian Lense. The story I chose was “Super-Frog Saves Tokyo”, by Haruki Murakami for many reasons. To start off, this was hands down the most enjoyable story to read from this course. It had many Freudian concepts I could draw upon which were wish-fulfillment, the three human personalities, and dreamwork. These three concepts helped to display Murakami’s critique of society’s loneliness/helplessness which I stated in my thesis. Taking into consideration my rhetorical situation, I felt like I did a good job. Knowing my professors knew the stories and Freudian concepts I tried to be more analytical in this paper than summarizing. My purpose/goal in this essay was to illustrate on Katagiri’s critique of helplessness while not trying to summarize Katagiri’s life. I had many hardships doing this because I felt like on my beginning drafts I was explaining a lot. Also, another task that was hard was flooding my essay with a bunch of information. I felt like it comprised a handful of evidence since I had to contribute Freud in my analysis, due to this I felt I lacked fully connecting my analysis. There were many things I felt I did well and one was my outside resources. Bringing in Maurkami’s life and how he felt after the Kobe Earthquake played a big role in my text. The story was influenced by the Earthquake and Murakami put his real-world feelings into this text. My outside resources revolved around his feelings after the earthquake and I used that to connect with Katagiri and Freud. Reflecting on the CRA it was the most analytic essay we’ve got, but I enjoyed it the most. This assignment helped me better my analytical skills and sum up Freud.