Yetenekli Psikolog Dick Diver'ın Trajik Yok Oluşu

F. Scott Fitzgerald’ın Buruktur Gece adlı romanı eğitim ve kariyer gibi güçlü özelliklere sahip bir psikoloğun yeni bir sosyal statüye geçerken ortaya çıkan histeri ve melankoli gibi ruhsal bozuklukların karakteri nasıl trajik bir yok oluşa götürdüğünü göstermektedir. Bu bakımdan romanın başkahramanı ve bir zamanlar ruhsal hastalar için uyguladığı psikolojik tedavilerinden dolayı çok iyi bilinen ve saygı duyulan Dick Diver’in trajik çöküşünü ve kadınlara karşı cinsel arzularından dolayı yok oluşunu anlayabilmek için bu çalışma romandaki parçalar arasındaki yapı ve boşlukları Freud’un histeri ve melankoli teorileri üzerinden açıklamayı amaçlamaktadır.

Tragic Downfall of Promising Psychologist Dick Diver

The work of F. Scott Fitzgerald The Tender is Night shows us how a character like the psychologist Dick Diver having strong qualities such as education and career may collapse upon entering into a new social status which results in hamartia while it causes him to suffer from some mental illnesses such as hysteria and melancholia in his tragic fall down. In this perspective, be able to understand the tragic downfall of the protagonist Dick Diver who was once known well and respected for his psychology treatments for his mental patients then Dick Diver's getting lost in his sexual drives with his interaction with women this study aims to analyze the novel’s structure and the gaps between the parts of the novel with Freud’s theory of hysteria and melancholia.

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