Trauma, Psychology, and Climate Experience in The Ministry for the Future

This paper offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis of trauma, psychology, and climate experience in The Ministry for the Future.Drawing upon trauma theory, psychoanalysis, ecocriticism, and environmental humanities, it argues that Robinson's novel reconfigures climate change as a deeply embodied psychological phenomenon.Through its representation of catastrophic heatwaves, posttraumatic subjectivity, and global institutional responses, the text transforms the Anthropocene into a condition of collective psychic disturbance.The study focuses particularly on the character of Frank May as a site of climate trauma while extending the analysis to collective and planetary dimensions of psychological experience.By integrating theoretical insights from Cathy Caruth, Dominick LaCapra, Sigmund Freud, and contemporary environmental theorists, the paper demonstrates that climate fiction operates not only as representation but as an affective and ethical intervention in the Anthropocene.