Trauma studies explore the impact of trauma in literature and society by analyzing its psychological, rhetorical, and cultural significances. The idea that a traumatic experience challenges the limits of identity and fragments the psyche sets the initial parameters of the research. Vickroy in Trauma and Survival in Contemporary Fiction (2002) analyzes the formal innovations found in the narratives of trauma in contemporary literature, pairing postcolonial and trauma theories to explore the ways in which the psyche of protagonist represents the collective emotional experience of a social group. In his social and psychological plays and screenplays, the Iranian writer Gholam-Hossein Saedi (d. 1985), tries to recount the social problems of his era and analyze them according to his specialty in psychiatrics. His screenplay Gav [The Cow] is an account of a man’s devastation and gradual annihilation following the death of his beloved cow. Saedi’s narrative revolves around the issue of othering. Under the intimidating presence of invasive others in the village, the narrative is further developed into the point that protagonist identifies himself with the dearly-loved other, his dead cow. In light of Vickroy’s Trauma theory, the present article seeks insights on the ways in which trauma and narrative interact in Saedi's Gav; and hence it aims to answer which social and psychoanalytic issues are engaged by the bereavement. The study is significant as it explores the representation of the human subject caught between discursive othering forces in society. The article reveals the complex psychological and social factors that influence the self’s comprehension of a traumatic experience and how the experience of bereavement shapes and is shaped by the narrative.