EMMA DONOGHUE'un ODA’SINDA VE NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE’NUN KIRMIZI LEKE’SİNDE ANNELİĞİN PSİKANALİTİK ANALİZİ

This study aims to analyse Emma Donoghue’s Room and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter from a psychoanalytic perspective with focus on the mother child relationship. In novel we witness experiences, traumas, fight in ‘’outer space’’ of five-year-old boy Jack, along his mother, Ma who spent her years an eleven-feet room as captives. The inspiration is Fritzl case Austria real Elizabeth was raped sexually abused by biological father for 24 result this disgusting systematic incest, she gave birth 7 kids cellar their home. gorgeous pen writes heart-pounding situation one sons fictional way naming them Jack. On other hand, deals intimate relationship Hester Pearl abandoned world. They are reflection each well voice conscience light hope survive challenging society. Especially life overlaps between Prynne, Dimmesdale Chillingworth many respects, such observation Oedipus complex. writer reflects unconscious personality characters putting himself place through theory. Both novels feature identification enclosed, isolated area if they were imprisoned captives secluded rooms demonstrate how complete contribute other’s self-development transformation mother-child under social pressure. Through act writing, author expresses his/her desires words become digging tools. Like archaeologist, he/she digs past wants express experience past. Therefore, fantasizes manifests wishes form art. For Freud’s informal talk called Creative Writers Day- Dreaming which given 1907 consequently published 1908 written document there close phantasy creative art while reading text, understand psyche way. Because man remain suppressed level mind when he produces something like artistic work regarding poem or novel, those ideas rise up come surface. While demonstrating both that bear traces Donoghue Herman Melville’s childhood also analyses reveal inner worlds, repressed desires, feelings actions. Closely related theory, Hawthorne effects taboos constraints individuals expression feelings, inward thoughts. He enables readers go deeper into complicated minds psychological disorders later transformation. Ma’s id, ego, superego, syndrome Jack lives, dreams unmask starkly touched upon well.