Abstract:

Psychoanalytic criticism method, developed by Sigmund Freud, investigates the effects of subconscious and life story of the authors in his/her works. Various tendencies in art works supply data for this method of criticism. Trying to find the source of creation, this method claims to detect subconscious of the authors and tries to answer where art originates, and what urges the authors to create. Based on the notion that authors rebuild the “ego”, some images, symbols and motifs, used both implicitly and explicitly in the text, give an idea about the motives and incentives that push the author to create. Tevfik Fikret, one of the biggest poets in Turkish literature, locates himself in the center of some of his texts, and tends to create a super-ego. Both in his ego-centered poems and in identities in his other poems, spiritual state of Fikret and its effects in creation of his art could be observed. In this study, in line with potentials of psychoanalytic criticism method, reflections

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