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Leylâ Erbil started her literary journey with Tuhaf Bir Kadın (1971), and ended this adventure with Tuhaf Bir Erkek (2013). Among others, her other novels Karanlığın Günü, Mektup Aşkları, Cüce, Üç Başlı Ejderha and Kalan stand in a distinct place in the history of literature with their handling of issues. These seven texts, which are mostly evaluated in feminist literature, can also be analized with other phenomenons such as “being human, self consciousness, self-existence, and being oneself”. It can also be seen that there is a thematically spiral structure in these seven texts which can be taken into the same bracket of “oddness”. One may claim that the texts are born from each other, talk to each other, from beginning to end they are almost parts of a single novel and gathered in one center. In this center, people who are trying to be an individual, trying to create an identity, and struggling with society and all other institutions cannot be ultimately belong to any specific place as in the words of Zenîme Hanım of Cüce, they are just "an identity without any belonging". In this study, it will be determined how Neslihan's "identity without belonging" is shaped in Karanlığın Günü. Based on Foucault's term “Technologies of the self", it will be emphasized that Neslihan's self is shaped in writing and authorship, and it will be seen that she finally defines herself without belongingness with the effect of narcissistic damage caused by her inability to reach a full text because of the troubles of her daily life.