Abstract
Born in Istanbul at the beginning of the 20th century, Suat Derviş is known for her novels, articles, and translations, as well as her journalism. Having more than thirty serialized novels written by her, Derviş is also accredited as the first Turkish woman journalist whose articles were published abroad. Besides Fosforlu Cevriye, which was serialized in the years 1944-1945, Kara Kitap, published in 1921, is one of the rare works that can be considered as an example of the horror genre in Turkish literature. At the beginning of her literary life, she focused upon gloomy place descriptions, psychological analysis of the characters, terror, and the uncanny concepts by reflecting the horror and gothic elements in her works. In the republic and modernization process, she reacted to the representation of reality by means of her novels containing surreal events, and highlighted the importance of the illogical and imaginary elements that were not mentioned much in Turkish literature. Likewise, her second novel named Ne Bir Ses Ne Bir Nefes (1923) describes the psychological tension between an elderly father and son who fall in love with the same woman. Depicting the jealousy and tension-filled father-son relationship between Osman and Kemal throughout the novel, Suat Derviş depicts the uncanny behavior of paranoid characters, who primarily oscillate between madness and sanity. The adoration and jealousy that Osman and Kemal feel towards Zeliha as father and son coincide with the psychoanalytic concept of Oedipus Complex, which was coined by Sigmund Freud towards the end of the nineteenth century. Therefore, this study aims to reveal that the conflict between a father and a son, who fall in love with the same woman, in Ne Bir Ses Ne Bir Nefes authored by Suat Derviş can be associated with the Oedipus complex and Othello syndrome, by making use of Freud’s theories.