Özet:

The first edition of Sevgi Soysal’s novel titled Yenişehir’de Bir Öğle Vakti, which tells about the life of the citizen of Ankara, was published in 1973. In the novel, the sociological structure of the 1970s is transmitted through characters belonging to different classes. The detailed presentation of the psychology of a wide range of people makes it possible to work on the psychology of the individual. The narcissistic trends shown by the characters make it possible to read the novel in the context of narcissism theory. The subject of this study is the narcissistic trends of the people in the novel Yenişehir’de Bir Öğle Vakti. In the study, it is aimed to analyze the novel characters within the framework of the “pathological narcissism” theory developed by Otto F. Kernberg and to interpret the literary text through the discipline of psychology. The method of the article is the narcissism. Based on Kernberg’s discipline, pathological narcissism has been studied under the headings of self-construction and object relations; insecurity, ambition, dissatisfaction; grandoise self, authority and anger.