@article{2013,title={A PSYCHOANALYTIC ANALYSIS: HANDAN, HALİDE EDİB ADIVAR’S NOVEL},abstractNode={Psychoanalysis which was based by Sigmund Freud is a frequently used method in literary criticism. Having presented the first example of psychoanalytic criticism, Freud saw the author as a neurotic person while he analyzed the psychological symptoms put forward in the text by the same author. In his opinion, suppressed instincts lead the author to write and the author is freed from the pressure due to the action of creation. This method which tries to find the source of creating claims that the subconscious of the author is indicated in the text. Furthermore, answers are sought to the questions as to why art came into existence and why the artist keeps creating. Besides being a method that places the author in the center, psychoanalytic criticism enables analyses oriented towards the characters, style, and content of the work. In this text, Halide Edib Adıvar’s (1882-1964) novel titled as Handan (1912) has been analyzed on the basis of psychoanalytic criticism theory. There are explicit similarities between the author and the protagonist of the novel, Handan. As the novel has autobiographic characteristics, the author’s writing of herself as a woman and her weaving of female psychology and love as an emotion gains importance. In the novel there are three love triangles developing around the idealized modern woman: In the Nâzım-Handan-Hüsnü Paşa triangle, sexuality is valued above ideology; in the Handan-Refik Cemal-Neriman triangle modern woman is preferred to traditional woman; and in the Hüsnü Paşa-Handan-Refik Cemal triangle, the modern woman finds a new love after the betrayals. The idealized modern woman wants to experience an absolute coalescence with the object of desire on the sexual and mental surfaces and to surrender to the relationship she has desired with all her existence. The moment she finds mutual love, she is punished with death by author. Although an end like this is related to the preference of the author to obey the social conditions of the period, when love affair and the expression of female psychology is taken into consideration, it can be indicated that novel as a genre has been developed in a positive manner.},author={Ayşegül ERGİŞİ},year={2013},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies}}