Reflections of Anima Archetype in Women and Men Relations on the Most Bare Day of Month Cover Image

Ayın En Çıplak Günü’nde Kadın ve Erkek İlişkisinde Anima Arketipinin Yansımaları
Reflections of Anima Archetype in Women and Men Relations on the Most Bare Day of Month

Author(s): Hilal Akça
Subject(s): Anthropology, Psychology, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Karadeniz Araştırmaları Merkezi
Keywords: Most Bare Day of the Month; Men and Women; Anima;

Summary/Abstract: The unbalanced relationship between men and woman is perhaps one of the most important issues faced both by social structure and social life, and has numerous sociological and psychological impacts on individuals, families, and societies alike. The choosing of a spouse/lover/friend shapes the life of the individual, reveals their ability to communicate with the opposite sex, and helps them both to adapt to the social structure as well as to move away from this structure. This relationship, at the same time, can have a major impact on economics, politics, social fabrics, history, and faith, as well as upon psychological inheritance that we inherit from our ancestors. Archetypes, which Carl Gustav Jung describes as the product of the collective/social unconscious and transferred to the individual from the first archaic human beings in the form of cultural codes, play a major role in terms of how an individual adapt to society. Jung refers to this hereditary collective male and female image, as "animus” and "anima", respectively, and reveals how this sole image has influenced the choices of both sexes in the shaping of male-female relationships, particularly in the life of the individual. Modern Turkish writer Buket Uzuner's “The Naked Day of the Month”, depicts stories about the lives of men and women in within the context of the eternal/imaginary by concretizing and sampling the different dimensions reflecting the importance of women. Through these, this study will identify traces of our ancestral psychological heritage through the relationship between “men and women” as a universal problem. At the same time, it will also attempt to make the effects of the feminine element in the life of men more visible to the reader

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 64
  • Page Range: 743-757
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Turkish