Abstract
From a psychoanalytic perspective, this article seeks to understand demonstrations of melancholy experience in family relationships between parents and son in the manga Fruits Basket (2016), by Natsuki Takaya. The character Kyo and her parents exemplify what theorist Julia Kristeva develop in her work Black Sun (1989), particularly that literary creation as a materialization of bodies and signs, bears witness to sadness, as a mark of separation and as the beginning of the symbolic dimension. It will be discussed here the links between melancholy, love and losses inherent to family relationships in a sh?jo manga. Kyo Sohma belongs to a cursed family that reincarnates the Chinese zodiac animals, for this reason his mother commits suicide and his father rejects him. The character has her life marked by parental neglect during childhood, developing problems that are perpetuated throughout the narrative.
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