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MOURNING, MELANCHOLIA AND NARCISSISTIC DEPRESSION IN EDGAR ALLAN POE'S "LIGEIA"

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Abstract (2. Language): 
In Edgar Allan Poe's story "Ligeia" the narrator recites his memories and this narrative technique requires the readers to focus on his narration of his memories, what he remembers and why he remembers certain elements of his past, and leaves some out. Nonetheless, as the key object that shapes the narrator's memories is the "eye," the discussion of the motif of the eye will be one of the discussions in this paper. As well as the signification of the eye, the narrator's remembrance of Ligeia's physical appearance, and repeating the beauty of her eyes over and over again, makes the readers suspicious about the cause of the narrator's sadness: is he really mourning for his lost wife, or is he mourning for something else? As a result of this set of questions, this article will dominantly use Freud's ideas on mourning, melancholia, remembering and forgetting so as to identify what it is that the narrator has lost and what that loss means to the narrator.
Abstract (Original Language): 
Edgar Allan Poe"nun kısa öyküsü olan "Ligeia," anlatıcının geçmişe dair hatırladıklarını anlatır ve bu anlatım tekniği sayesinde okuyucu anlatıcının neyi neden hatırladığı üstüne düşünmeye başlar. Anlatıcının hatırladıklarının arasında en belirgin olan ölen karısının gözleridir ve hikâye boyunca gözlerle ilgili değişik yorumlar ve anılar tekrarlanmaktadır. Bu tekrarlama okuyucuyu gizlenen sorulara yöneltir: Anlatıcı gerçekten karısının ölümüne mi üzülüyor yoksa kaybettiği karısının dışında başka bir şey midir? Bu makalede Freud"un yas tutma, melankoli, hatırlama ve unutma gibi kavramları kullanılarak, anlatıcının gerçekten neyin yasım tutmaya çalıştığı incelenecek.
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