![]() As the novel has autobiographic characteristics, the author’s writing of herself as a woman and her weaving of female psychology and love as an emotion gains importance. There are explicit similarities between the author and the protagonist of the novel, Handan. In this text, Halide Edib Adıvar’s (1882-1964) novel titled as Handan (1912) has been analyzed on the basis of psychoanalytic criticism theory. Besides being a method that places the author in the center, psychoanalytic criticism enables analyses oriented towards the characters, style, and content of the work. Furthermore, answers are sought to the questions as to why art came into existence and why the artist keeps creating. This method which tries to find the source of creating claims that the subconscious of the author is indicated in the text. In his opinion, suppressed instincts lead the author to write and the author is freed from the pressure due to the action of creation. ![]() ![]() Having presented the first example of psychoanalytic criticism, Freud saw the author as a neurotic person while he analyzed the psychological symptoms put forward in the text by the same author. Psychoanalysis which was based by Sigmund Freud is a frequently used method in literary criticism. ![]()
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