What are the motifs in Cold Fire by Dean Koontz?

Love vs Trauma is a recurring idea. Jim suffers incredible trauma as a child. First, he witnesses and is the sole survivor of a massacre at a Dixie Duck restaurant. He sees his parents and more than twenty other people killed before he is finally rescued and taken from the arms of his dead father. He goes to live with his grandparents and has great difficulty coping with his parents death. This is largely because in hindsight, he realizes that had he concentrated on the gunman or on the gun he was using, he might have been able to save his parents. This revelation is so painful and causes so much guilt and remorse that ten-year-old Jim fractures to cope with it, creating an alternate entity.