Kaptırılmış ideal: Mai ve Siyah üzerine psikanalitik bir deneme
In the case of Uşaklıgil and other late Ottoman modernists, the disruption is not between two undetermined “conciousnesses”, but between a historically defined super-ego whose contents are given by State and Tradition, and an equally historical ego ideal formed through successive identifications with the “West”. This double-bind and the resulting futility, which has defined the contours of much of modernist Turkish literature up to this very day, was in fact the true condition of the “Turkish spirit” at that particular juncture, a condition which Uşaklıgil most graphically described in his novel, The Blue and the Black.
Notes
- Suffers from a prejudice made up of a half truth and a straight-up miscomprehension: Edebiyat-ı Cedide was the beginning of the inclination towards aestheticism, is half true. The oft-repeated miscomprehension is that it was köksüzdür, yabancı ve yüzeysel. Part of the Republican narrative.
- According to Berna Moran, the two trends in pre-1950's literature was the obsession with the East/West question, and the focus on only personal concerns, as opposed to social.
- Over-reliance on the contrast between character's living within their own inner-minds, and social 'types'.
- But social questions are not only reflected in 'thought' but as well in 'feeling'
-This article looks at the East/West split as it is projected onto psychoanalytic dimensions.
-Even while admitting its importance, thinkers like Tanpirar and Gokalp decry its problems.
-Ahmet Midhat's critique was the following: "“Servet-i Fünuncuları Fransız dekadanlarına benzeterek, bütün değerleri çökertmeye çalışmakla”, especially bothered with the inaccessible language.
- In other countries, rise of the novel coincided with the explosion of "locallness"
- Ahmet Cemal sees Huseyin's Nazmi's house as a depot for his desires and ideals.
-Ahmet Cemal is not cut off from his social surroundings, he's in fact highly tied to his own economic conditions.
-Ahmet Cemil’lerin mutsuzluk bilinci, farklı kökleri ve farklı tarihsellikleri olan iki ayrı yapısal etkenin çatışmasının ürünüdür. Bu mutsuzluğun işleyişini görmek için süper-egoyu da analize dahil etmek, Narkissos ekseniyle Oidipus eksenini birlikte düşünmek gerekiyor.
- Ahmet Cemal is caught between guilt and being drunk on victory ( Ahmet Cemil’in narsisistik zafer duygusuyla oidipal suçluluk arasında mekik dokudu)
- Mai ve Siyah’ı doğuran tarihsel deneyimin bu yapıt konusunda temel bir yanlış anlamaya da zemin hazırladığını öne sürmüştüm. “Ulusal benliği” dile getiremediği ve “bizden” olamadığı için eleştirildi Halit Ziya.
-Mai ve Siyah’ta gerçek bir imkânsızlığı, kalıcı bir yarılmayı anlattığı için yanlış anlaşılmıştır Halit Ziya.
- The tastes of Republican Turkey were disdainful of Servet-i Fünun's concerns.