Özet:

 Ziya Paşa (1829-1880) was one of the most famous poets, writers, translators, historians of literature, journalists and, also bureaucrats in nineteenth century. His work, Rüyâ, was published in Hürriyet on October 11th, 1869 and October 18th, 1869 with the name of “Sultan Abdülaziz Han, Ziya Bey, Âli Paşa". The aim of the current study was to examine Rüyâ by psychoanalytic literary criticism. In accordance with this purpose, psychology of the author was investigated in light of psychoanalytic approach (especially, in line with Sigmund Freud’s, Carl Gustav Jung’s and Neo-Freudians’s ideas), important historical facts and political events of those years. Rüyâ fictionalises a dream of Ziya Paşa and says a lot of things about the thinking processes of the author. The author has used fantasy which is one of the ego defense mechanisms in his narration. This part of the work allows us to examine the author’s ego. In addition, the theme of grudge was necessarily addressed in this article because the Rüyâ depends on looking for revenge. So, the defense mechanisms of the author and their conscious and unconscious sources were tried to be understood. The analyses revealed that the fantasies in the Rüyâ were related to the past political experiences of the author and his desire for revenge.

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