A Psychoanalytic Approach to Wolfgang Borchert’s Short Story named of “Kitchen Clock” Cover Image

Wolfgang Borchert’in “Mutfak Saati” Adlı Kısa Öyküsüne Psikanalitik Bir Yaklaşım
A Psychoanalytic Approach to Wolfgang Borchert’s Short Story named of “Kitchen Clock”

Author(s): Meryem NAKİBOĞLU
Subject(s): Comparative Study of Literature, Psychoanalysis, Theory of Literature
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: War; short Story; Bortchert; Psychoanalysis; Sigmund Freud; Kitchen Clock;

Summary/Abstract: In German literature, Wolfgang Borchert who has become well known after Second World War in Trümmerliteratur, Null Stunde as well as Kahlshlagliteratur. He is considered young and famous besides he was one of the most important story writers. His writings generally discussed destroyed houses, broken families, poverty, despair, death, destruction and the dramatic cases of those whose houses and families are affected and cannot return to their homeland after the war. The study will try to examine the psyhoanalyse method of the story “Kitchen Time” which involved the cruelty of the war based on the characters in the book. Wolfgang Borchert’s stories talk about the moods of the people who have experienced war trauma and survival throughout their lives. Because of neither it was lived emotional dissonance society nor soldiers at that period. The War has affected people all over the country in a negative way and it deeply and unforgettable engraved on survivors lifelong. The authors assumed that the people holding a mirror to society’s way of life who are particularly personally experienced the war period. Authors paid penalty for because of don’t want wage war and they tackled all pressures and challenges. The Bochert’s short story not telling merely his living events experiences, the story shed light on today’s world and it tells us psychological moods of people who are live on war with a plain expression. It is telling in story of one people who doesn’t have any information about himself and telling the lay claims of kitchen clock after destroying his house in war and it is going to ascertain of hero’s subconscious also case history with psychoanalyze method within this scope of speeches.

  • Issue Year: 7/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 122-134
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Turkish