Ozden Selenge'nin romanlarinda arzu mekanizmasinin evrenselligi. (1).(love, desire, and social problems in the works of Ozden Selenge)(Critical Essay)

Ozet

Bu calismanin amaci Kibrisli kadin yazar ve ressam Ozden Selenge'nin romanlarindaki arzu mekanizmasinin evrensel niteliklerinin tartisilmasidir. Bu amacla ozel olarak Selenge'nin anlasilmasina uygun bir izlek tayin edilmis ve Selenge, bir okuyucusu olan bu calismann yazarinda uyandirdigi, arzu mekanizmasi uzerinden anlasilmaya calisilmistir. Cunku, bu calismada benimsenen bakis acisina gore bir sanat eserinin ve ozellikle de bir sanat eserindeki arzu mekanizmasinin tarafsiz bir bakis acisi ile degerlendirilmesi mumkun degildir. Selenge'deki arzu mekanizmasinin evrenselligini tartisabilmek amaci ile olusturulan bu izlek, oncelikle Selenge'nin romanlarindaki arzu mekanizmasinin evrensel ve yerel cekiniklik (minority) lie iliskisinin, daha sonra ise evrensel cekinik ozelliklerin yerel olanlar uzerindeki hakimiyeti sonucunun kesinlestirilmesi amaci ile ayni arzu mekanizmasinin bicimsel ozellikler ile olan iliskisinin incelenmesinden olusmaktadir.

Abstract

Universality of the Desire Mechanism (32) in Ozden Selenge's Novels

This paper is about the significance of the desire mechanism in the novels of Ozden Selenge who is a Cypriot woman writer and artist. For this purpose, a specific process is applied in order to understand Selenge's novels. According to this process, desire mechanism is perceived self-reflectively as it affects the writer of this paper. According to this perspective, it is not possible to make an objective evaluation of an art product and especially the desire mechanism in it.

The first two parts of the paper are about the universal and local characteristics that are presented in these novels. It is shown that impossibility of love forms an universal desire mechanism in both of Selenge's two novels, while the main desire mechanism of her last novel is the possibility of friendship. It is also shown that the way Selenge understands love and friendship corresponds to a certain perspective of women. However, this is such a woman point of view that does not have any feminine (a tendency to imitate), feminist (a tendency to oppose) or female (a tendency to be passive) characteristics. It is a point of view that is infinitely open to in-between categories in order to produce an extremely fine particularity.

The target of the paper is to explore whether these universal characteristics are dominant on the local ones. Selenge produces these universal desire mechanisms by giving the local desire mechanisms to the service of the universal ones. Repression applied by the specific (well known) social problems is inverted with the help of the particularity of her peaceful characters. This is the way she highlights the local social problems, while achieving the universality at the same time.