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Madness and the Fractured Psyche in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper

Yıl 2025, Sayı: 27, 27 - 40, 10.12.2025
https://doi.org/10.46250/kulturder.1751965

Öz

Framed through Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, The Yellow Wallpaper reveals madness as both fracture and form, exposing a paradoxical state where repression and resistance coexist. The narrator’s psychological disintegration, catalyzed by enforced silence and infantilization, transforms into an act of symbolic rebellion. The yellow wallpaper becomes a psychic mirror, reflecting not only internal conflict but also an unconscious strategy of survival. Freud’s concept of repression unveils how language, or its absence, distorts emotion into obsession. Lacan’s theory of the split subject locates the narrator’s crisis in the unstable space between desire and identity, a conflict shaped by the collision of the Imaginary and the Symbolic. Narrator’s fixation on the trapped woman and her eventual identification with her suggests a failed attempt to bridge this gap. What begins as a slow mental collapse becomes a desperate quest for coherence within a system that denies her agency. In this analysis, madness is explored as not simply pathology but a language of the silenced, a final, fractured means of self-assertion. This paper aims to examine how The Yellow Wallpaper illustrates the coexistence of repression and resistance through psychoanalytic concepts of the unconscious, to posit how madness operates as a fractured form of subjectivity and symbolic expression.

Kaynakça

  • Billig, Michael (1999). Freudian Repression: Conversation Creating the Unconscious. Cambridge University Press.
  • Eigen, Michael (2018). The Psychotic Core. Taylor and Francis.
  • Evans, Dylan (1996). An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis. Routledge.
  • Fatima, Rameen (2024). “The Intersection of Feminist Psychoanalysis and Literature: A Critical Examination of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’”. Journal of Excellence in Social Sciences, 4(1): 12–23.
  • Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1990). The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The University of Wisconsin Press. [Originally published in 1935].
  • Hale, Nathan G. (1971) Freud and the Americans: The Beginning of Psychoanalysis in the United States 1876-1917. Oxford.
  • Hendrix, John S. (2019). The Other of Jacques Lacan. https://docs.rwu.edu/ saahp_fp/47 (Accessed 19 Dec. 2024).
  • Kapuni-Reynolds, Halena (2009). “Sickly Yellow: Freedom and Confinement in The Yellow Wallpaper”. Hohonu: A Journal of Academic Writing, 7. University of Hawaii at Hilo.
  • Knight, Denise D. (2006). “‘I am Getting Angry Enough to Do Something Desperate’: The Question of Female ‘Madness’”. The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Dual Text Critical Edition. Ed. Shawn St. Jean. Ohio University Press, 73–87.
  • Laing, R. D. (1967). The Politics of Experience. Pantheon Books.
  • Landale, Nancy S. & Guest, Avery M. (1986). “Ideology and Sexuality Among Victorian Women”. Social Science History, 10(2): 147-170.
  • MacPike, Loralee (1975). “Environment as Psychopathological Symbolism in ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’”. American Literary Realism, 1870–1910, 8(3): 286–88.
  • Misbah, Randa A. M. (2022). “Psychodrama and Mental Illness As Resistance in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)”. Journal of Wadi El-Nil for Human, Social, and Educational Research, 36: 115–146.
  • URL-1: https://nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/theliteratureofprescription/exhibi-tionAssets/digitalDocs/The-Yellow-Wall-Paper.pdf (Accessed 19 Dec. 2024).
  • Villar, Camille Francesca (2024). “The Modern-Day ‘Rest Cure’: ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ and Underrepresentation in Clinical Research”. Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 19(1): Article 8.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’ın The Yellow Wallpaper Adlı Eserinde Delilik ve Parçalanmış Ruh Kavramları

Yıl 2025, Sayı: 27, 27 - 40, 10.12.2025
https://doi.org/10.46250/kulturder.1751965

Öz

Freudyen ve Lacancı psikanaliz çerçevesinde ele alındığında, The Yellow Wallpaper kısa hikayesi deliliği hem bir kırılma hem de bir biçim olarak ortaya koyar, bastırma ile direnişin bir arada var olduğu paradoksal bir durumu açığa çıkarır. Anlatıcının psikolojik çözülmesi, zorla dayatılan sessizlik ve çocuklaştırma ile tetiklenir ve simgesel bir başkaldırı eylemine dönüşür. Sarı duvar kâğıdı, yalnızca içsel çatışmayı değil, aynı zamanda bilinçdışı bir hayatta kalma stratejisini yansıtan psikolojik bir aynaya dönüşür. Freud’un bastırma kavramı, dilin ya da onun yokluğunun duyguları nasıl saplantıya dönüştürdüğünü ortaya koyar. Lacan’ın bölünmüş özne kuramı ise anlatıcının krizini, arzu ile kimlik, İmgesel ile Simgesel arasındaki boşlukta konumlandırır. Anlatıcının hapsolmuş kadına duyduğu takıntı ve sonunda onunla özdeşleşmesi, bu boşluğu kapatma girişiminin başarısızlığını gösterir. Yavaş ilerleyen bir zihinsel çöküş olarak başlayan süreç, öznenin iradesini reddeden bir sistem içinde anlam arayışına dönüşür. Bu analizde delilik yalnızca bir patoloji değil, susturulmuşların dili, parçalı ama son bir kendini ifade etme biçimi olarak ele alınır. Bu çalışma, bastırma ile direnişin nasıl bir arada var olabildiğini psikanalitik bilinçdışı kavramları aracılığıyla The Yellow Wallpaper üzerinden incelemeyi ve deliliğin nasıl bölünmüş bir özne biçimi ve simgesel bir ifade aracı olarak işlediğini ortaya koymayı amaçlamaktadır.

Kaynakça

  • Billig, Michael (1999). Freudian Repression: Conversation Creating the Unconscious. Cambridge University Press.
  • Eigen, Michael (2018). The Psychotic Core. Taylor and Francis.
  • Evans, Dylan (1996). An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis. Routledge.
  • Fatima, Rameen (2024). “The Intersection of Feminist Psychoanalysis and Literature: A Critical Examination of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’”. Journal of Excellence in Social Sciences, 4(1): 12–23.
  • Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1990). The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The University of Wisconsin Press. [Originally published in 1935].
  • Hale, Nathan G. (1971) Freud and the Americans: The Beginning of Psychoanalysis in the United States 1876-1917. Oxford.
  • Hendrix, John S. (2019). The Other of Jacques Lacan. https://docs.rwu.edu/ saahp_fp/47 (Accessed 19 Dec. 2024).
  • Kapuni-Reynolds, Halena (2009). “Sickly Yellow: Freedom and Confinement in The Yellow Wallpaper”. Hohonu: A Journal of Academic Writing, 7. University of Hawaii at Hilo.
  • Knight, Denise D. (2006). “‘I am Getting Angry Enough to Do Something Desperate’: The Question of Female ‘Madness’”. The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Dual Text Critical Edition. Ed. Shawn St. Jean. Ohio University Press, 73–87.
  • Laing, R. D. (1967). The Politics of Experience. Pantheon Books.
  • Landale, Nancy S. & Guest, Avery M. (1986). “Ideology and Sexuality Among Victorian Women”. Social Science History, 10(2): 147-170.
  • MacPike, Loralee (1975). “Environment as Psychopathological Symbolism in ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’”. American Literary Realism, 1870–1910, 8(3): 286–88.
  • Misbah, Randa A. M. (2022). “Psychodrama and Mental Illness As Resistance in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)”. Journal of Wadi El-Nil for Human, Social, and Educational Research, 36: 115–146.
  • URL-1: https://nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/theliteratureofprescription/exhibi-tionAssets/digitalDocs/The-Yellow-Wall-Paper.pdf (Accessed 19 Dec. 2024).
  • Villar, Camille Francesca (2024). “The Modern-Day ‘Rest Cure’: ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ and Underrepresentation in Clinical Research”. Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 19(1): Article 8.
Toplam 15 adet kaynakça vardır.

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Gönderilme Tarihi 27 Temmuz 2025
Kabul Tarihi 27 Eylül 2025
Yayımlanma Tarihi 10 Aralık 2025
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APA Mızrak, B. S. (2025). Madness and the Fractured Psyche in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper. Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi(27), 27-40. https://doi.org/10.46250/kulturder.1751965
AMA Mızrak BS. Madness and the Fractured Psyche in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper. KAD. Aralık 2025;(27):27-40. doi:10.46250/kulturder.1751965
Chicago Mızrak, Begüm Sude. “Madness and the Fractured Psyche in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper”. Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, sy. 27 (Aralık 2025): 27-40. https://doi.org/10.46250/kulturder.1751965.
EndNote Mızrak BS (01 Aralık 2025) Madness and the Fractured Psyche in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper. Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi 27 27–40.
IEEE B. S. Mızrak, “Madness and the Fractured Psyche in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper”, KAD, sy. 27, ss. 27–40, Aralık2025, doi: 10.46250/kulturder.1751965.
ISNAD Mızrak, Begüm Sude. “Madness and the Fractured Psyche in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper”. Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi 27 (Aralık2025), 27-40. https://doi.org/10.46250/kulturder.1751965.
JAMA Mızrak BS. Madness and the Fractured Psyche in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper. KAD. 2025;:27–40.
MLA Mızrak, Begüm Sude. “Madness and the Fractured Psyche in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper”. Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, sy. 27, 2025, ss. 27-40, doi:10.46250/kulturder.1751965.
Vancouver Mızrak BS. Madness and the Fractured Psyche in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper. KAD. 2025(27):27-40.
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