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Psychoanalysis has since been in a mutual relationship with literature. Through this mutual relationship between psychoanalysis and literature, many literary works have played an effective role in the founding of psychoanalysis approach, while psychoanalysis theory has shaped the interpretation of many literary works. In this article, Orhan Pamuk's New Life novel, published in 1994 with postmodern understanding, will be studied with the psychoanalytic concepts of French psychoanalist Jacques Lacan. The writing of the new Life novel with postmodern understanding gives the opportunity to host a lot of meaning in the many expressions in the novel. Through this much meaning that it has, the novel is made with different significance fiction in each reading. Lacan, while creating his psychoanalytic theory, emphasized linguistics and explained the concept of unconsciousness with the relationship that was shown. Lacan, who attracted attention to the concept of metaphor in his unconscious and linguistic studies, has also addressed his work on literary works through this concept. In this context, taking into account the great meaning that postmodern understanding brings, it is believed that the study of the New Life novel with the Lacanyen psychoanalytic approach will add a separate wealth to reading this novel. The New Life novel is about the character named Osman’s meeting with a book and his journey to find the new life mentioned in that book. The main character of the novel is in love with Canan, with Mehmet and his son who wants to be Dr. Relationships with Narin are formed around. The words “book,” “Canan”, “route”, “Mehmet,” and “Dr. Narin”, which are an important place in the novel’s philosophy, are thought to indicate more than one meaning in the novel, and in this context these expressions are considered a metafor. These expressions are treated in relation to the real, imaging and symbolic level that forms the psychic structure according to Lacanyen psychoanalytic theory. For this purpose, the five expressions selected from the New Life novel are studied by the objects a, das Ding, jouissance, ideal-ego and paternity functional concepts, which are the basic concepts of the psychoanalytic theory of Lacanyen.

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Since its birth, psychoanalysis has been in a reciprocal relationship with literature. Through this reciprocal relationship, many literary works play an essential role in the foundation of the psychoanalytic approach while psychoanalytic theory has also shaped the interpretation of many literary works. In this article, The New Life novel, written by Orhan Pamuk with a postmodern approach in 1994, will be analyzed with the psychoanalytic concepts of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. Writing the novel with a postmodern approach provides an opportunity for many expressions in the novel to have multi-layered meanings. Thanks to that, the meaning in the novel could be constructed differently in each reading. French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, whilst developing his psychoanalytic theory, recognized the importance of linguistics. He located the unconscious within the signifier-signified relationship. Drawing attention to the concept of metaphor in unconscious and language studies, Lacan also handled his studies on literary works through this concept. Thus, analysing this novel through Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic concepts will add richness to the interpretation of the novel. The novel is about the character of Osman encountering a book and traveling to find the new life mentioned in that book, and it is fictionalized around Osman, Canan, with whom Osman falls in love, Mehmet with whom he competes, and Dr. Narin of whom he wants to be a son. In this context, the expressions of "book," "Canan", "journey", "Mehmet," and "Dr. Narin” are considered as metaphors because of having multi-layered meanings. These five expressions selected from The New Life novel; has been studied with the basic concepts of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory as the object a, das Ding, jouissance, ideal-ego and paternal function.