YİĞİT BENER’İN ÖTEKİ KÂBUSLAR’INA PSİKANALİTİK BİR YAKLAŞIM

Year 2019, Volume: 4 Issue: 2, 3 - 14, 25.12.2019

Hatice Şen , Macit Balık

Abstract

Yiğit Bener (b. 1958), who started to be known for his translation works in Turkish literature and his stories
published in magazines, begins publishing stories and novels after two thousand years. Besides being the son of
Erhan Bener, he draws attention to the extraordinary atmosphere he creates with the different narrative
techniques and allegories he uses in his stories. His first short story book, Öteki Kâbuslar [Other
Nightmares](2009), consists of stories constructed in fables in a way similar to social criticism by making the
“animal” figures seen in many western writers, from modernist fictions to the use of anonymous narratives, from
Geroge Orwell to Kafka.
Bener, describes society's shortcomings and wrongs, hatred, legitimization of death and ‘otherness’
through various animals. The author's autobiographical memory, powers of observation, testimonies and
experiences also refer to the formation of the stories in the work. It tries to expose problems that are not seen
or ignored by addressing both individual and social problems. The fact that the story person has psychological
depth and also the frequent use of animal figures makes it possible to evaluate within the framework of
psychoanalytic literary theory. In this study, references to the function and deep structure attached to animal
characters, emphasis on the social and individual subconscious will be revealed, and how indicators evolve into
social criticism will be discussed.

Keywords

Yiğit Bener, Öteki Kâbuslar, psikanalitik edebiyat kuramı, hayvan karakterler

A PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH ON YİĞİT BENER'S ÖTEKİ KÂBUSLAR (OTHER NIGHTMARKS)

Abstract

Yiğit Bener (b. 1958), who started to be known for his translation works in Turkish literature and his stories
published in magazines, begins publishing stories and novels after two thousand years. Besides being the son of
Erhan Bener, he draws attention to the extraordinary atmosphere he creates with the different narrative
techniques and allegories he uses in his stories. His first short story book, Öteki Kâbuslar [Other
Nightmares](2009), consists of stories constructed in fables in a way similar to social criticism by making the
“animal” figures seen in many western writers, from modernist fictions to the use of anonymous narratives, from
Geroge Orwell to Kafka.
Bener, describes society's shortcomings and wrongs, hatred, legitimization of death and ‘otherness’
through various animals. The author's autobiographical memory, powers of observation, testimonies and
experiences also refer to the formation of the stories in the work. It tries to expose problems that are not seen
or ignored by addressing both individual and social problems. The fact that the story person has psychological
depth and also the frequent use of animal figures makes it possible to evaluate within the framework of
psychoanalytic literary theory. In this study, references to the function and deep structure attached to animal
characters, emphasis on the social and individual subconscious will be revealed, and how indicators evolve into
social criticism will be discussed.

Keywords

Yiğit Bener, Öteki Kâbuslar, psychoanalytic literary theory

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