Nazlı Eray, investigates the life of her grandfather, Tahir Lütfü Tokay, bringing mysterious historical events to the 2000s with a fantastical reality. The fiction of the novel is directed by attributing the functions of the subconscious to the dark underground tunnel entered through the crack near the Mamak garbage dump and the imaginary people there. The subterranean world, by expanding with external characters and locations, forms the linkages of the plot. The author brings together the narrator’s victimizations, ranging from historical figures to women and cities, within a psychoanalytic framework. The novel,using the psychoanalytic data, uncovers lost lives and repressed emotions.By using catharsis method and drawing on magical realism and Freudian psychology this work tries to heal the wounds. This study examines, from the perspective of psychoanalytic critique theory, how the dark corridor and its external extensions represent the narrator’s subconscious, how victimizations intersect in the work, and what methods are employed to heal wounds.
Sis Kelebekleri, Nazlı Eray, catharsis, subconscious, psychoanalysis