Babanın Yankıları: Mansfield’ın Geç Albayın Kızları Üzerine Psikanalitik Bir İnceleme

Abstract

Katherine Mansfield, İngiliz modern edebiyatında önemli bir yere sahiptir. Birçok eseri, Yeni Zelanda’daki çocukluk anılarından etkilenmiştir. The Daughters of the Late Colonel adlı eserindeki Josephine ve Constantia karakterleri, Mansfield’ın çocukluk hatıralarını simgeler. Bu makale, kız kardeşlerin yaşadığı bastırılmış arzular, otorite baskısı ve ahlaki çatışmalar üzerinden psikolojik karmaşalarını inceler. Babalarının denetiminin, bilinçdışı üzerindeki etkileri, hafızanın bu psikolojik mücadelelerdeki rolünü ortaya koyar. Freudcu bir bakış açısıyla yapılan çözümleme, Mansfield’ın anlatısının korkunun kalıcı etkilerini ve ataerkil düzende bireysel özgürlük mücadelesini nasıl yansıttığını gösterir. Bu bağlamda makale, Freud’un id, ego ve süperego’dan oluşan kişilik yapısının eserdeki yansımalarını ele alır.

Keywords

• Katherine Mansfield
• Albayın Kızları
• Çocukluk anısı
• Freudyen psikanaliz

Echoes of the Father: A Psychoanalytic Study of Mansfield’s The Daughters of the Late Colonel

Abstract

Katherine Mansfield plays an important role in English modern literature. Many of her works were influenced by her New Zealand’s childhood memories. It is plainly enough that Josephine and Constantia in her work The Daughters of the Late Colonel symbolise Mansfield’s childhood memory. By investigating the psychological turmoil experienced by the two daughters, Josephine and Constantia, the article explores how their suppressed desires, dominant power, and moral conflicts shape their decisions and behaviors. Moreover, the continuation of their experiences with father’s domination in exerting control over the sisters’ subconscious put the role of memory forward in shaping the daughters’ psychological struggles. Through a Freudian lens, this analysis reveals how Mansfield’s narrative encapsulates the lingering effects of fear, and the struggle for autonomy within a patriarchal framework. Therefore, this article delves deeper into the dynamics of Freudian psychoanalytic theory, particularly the tripartite structure of personality—the id, ego, and superego and its articulation in The Daughters of the Late Colonel.

Keywords

• Katherine Mansfield
• The Daughters of the Late Colonel
• Childhood memory
• Freudian psychoanalysis

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