“EVEN LOVE WAS NOT ENOUGH”: THINKING ABOUT ATTACHMENT PARADIGM THROUGH TURKISH FILMS

The relationships are the subjects represented in cinematic narratives. relationship patterns of characters film texts produce, reproduce, and promulgate representation gender conventions. between form discourse that normalizes individualism propagated especially by neoliberal paradigm absence labor is required to repair human relations. They also allow thinking about our attachment patterns, which basic needs conflicts at same time. describes behavioral approach focusing on theory models. Attachment can vary depending both stories characters. In this study, ten Turkish films were selected from a wide range time 1965 2020 analyzed with analysis discuss different popular Vesikalı Yarim, Selvi Boylum Al Yazmalım Issız Adam, Biz Böyleyiz; independent Sevmek Zamanı, Kader, Körleşme examples avoidant, anxious, anxious-avoidant attachment. Mucize Nadide Hayat question secure perspectives. Gerçek Kesit: Manyak chosen as an extreme example because it reveals insecure masculinity crisis violence.