Abstract:

Archetypal Criticism Theory developed by Carl Gustav Jung analyzes psychology of characters taking stand from images and pictures. This theory enables researchers to compare the characters with mythological figures, which lead to common sense in many cultures since they are fed by "common subconscious" in depth of human psychology. Jung believes that powerful archetypes have different forms in different cultures. These archetypes show up by distancing themselves from the given cultures through a powerful experience and triggering. The theatre text, Gizler Çarşısı of Turgay Nar, who feeds his works with mythological elements, fairy tale heroes, grotesque factors, deserves to be analyzed within the scope of this theory. Sound fiction and characters bearing universal features in terms of psychological analysis bring multi-reading feature to this work. The author presents an example of reaction theatre by heading towards Power-People conflicts through the work of art, which differs from traditional theatre technique. The archetypes in this play are the characters scraped the emotional memory of society and enable reader/audience to compare and imagine the past. Being hard to read and perform, this text presents theatre as an art, which makes people think more, and touches upon social problems rather than being a simple entertainment. This paper aims to analyze the main characters of the play titled Gizler Çarşısı within the scope of Archetypal Criticism Theory developed by Jung.

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