An analysis of Lacanian concept in A.S. Byatt's possession and in Erendiz Atasü's the Other Side of the Mountain

The aim of this thesis is to show how A. S. Byatt in Possesion and Erendiz Atasü in The Other Side Of The Mountain have their own subjectivity in language and how they try to change the language along with social change by emphasizing the socially constructed order around us. In relation with the Lacanian `Symbolic Order?, the debate explores the struggle of two literary figures, Byatt and Atasü, to find a place in society having a separate identity, social status and freedom of expression. In the first chapter, the concept of otherness, father figure and mother-daughter relations, and expressing self-identity using metonymy and metaphor in language will be discussed based on Possession by A. S. Byatt and in the second chapter, the focus will be on the recent position of women mentioned in The Other Side of The Mountain by Erendiz Atasü in terms of being ?other?, being constituted by the patriarchal order of Turkish society, defining their family relations, and finally women?s expressing themselves in language through metaphor and metonymy. Last chapter is about the similarities and differences between the works of two authors.