Abstract:

Nazlı Eray who is one of the most important fantasy author in Turkish storytelling has never changed her style and built her literary works on fantasies since the beginning of her literary career. Eray’s early works are considered to be on the same line with Sait Faik’s by the literary society for her treating ordinary and rejected people in a sensible way in her stories. In her stories, the author who treats these characters and their lives with sympathy fulfills both her own and rejected people’s longings and their expectations from life by fantasising. One of the most important veins that feeds her fantasy style is dreams. Dreams have many functions in her stories and that leads her stories to be analysed within the frame of psychoanalytic literary theory. She uses the reality and fantasy together and creates a different reality in her stories in which ordinary people and she herself as the narrator take part. It can be seen that she makes the unthinkable and supernatural possible in an atmosphere of dream. The author fictionalises her stories with the oppurtunities the dreams offer to ensure supernatural and metaphysical situations. In this study, dream motives taking a wide part in Nazlı Eray’s stories is examined in the frame of psychoanalytic literary theory and the author’s using dream as a setting up technique is analysed.

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