Tatlı Bir Uyku: The Cement Garden adlı Romanın Jacques Lacan ve Julia Kristeva’nın Teorik Çerçevesinden Psikoanalitik Bir Okuması

Ian McEwan is the writer of most controversial texts contemporary British fiction. One outstanding examples his literature shock, McEwan’s The Cement Garden, a challenging narrative in sense that it depicts disturbing experiences family, ranging from incest to death. fact these are narrated through an adolescent boy’s point view makes even more depiction events this narrator’s focalized. Through focalization, horrifying experienced by children as if they were just ordinary which creates somehow effect on reader. However disturbance also leads reader think actions and their relationship parents each other refer underlying symbolism pertaining psychic conditions. This article aims reveal interpret novel focusing lens Lacan’s concepts ‘lack’ Symbolic order Kristeva’s concept ‘semiotic chora’.