Traces of jungian psychology in Hermann Hesse's novels Steppe Wolf and Oguz Atay's Dangerous Games

This study, which examines Oğuz Atay's Dangerous Games and Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf, aims to bring literature and psychology together and draw new conclusions. The literary novels that form the basis of the study reveal the spiritual crises experienced by modern people. Analytical Psychology, pioneered by Carl Gustav Jung, is full of reflections of the complex spiritual structure of modern people who are searching for themselves. According to Jung, the individualization process of modern people with an unlimited and complex spiritual structure is an endeavor that they will pursue throughout their lives and encounter a new dimension at every opportunity. One of the aims of psychology is to consider people within the unity of soul and body. In this respect, the fields of literature and psychology included in the study come together at the point of presenting the individual who is experiencing deterioration in his spiritual structure and his journey of individualization. Just like the adventures of heroes seen in literary works, the concept of individualization that Analytical Psychology aims to reveal also reveals the journey of a hero to find himself. Within this framework, Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf and Oğuz Atay's novels titled Dangerous Games were evaluated and compared in the light of Jungian psychology. The study consists of four sections. Before moving on to the theoretical section of the study, which will be based on Jung's views put forward by the Analytical Psychology school, the togetherness of literature and psychology in terms of this study is explained in the introduction section. In the first section, Carl Gustav Jung and his psychology are summarized with their main elements in order to create a theoretical framework. In the second section, Hermann Hesse and the novel Steppenwolf are examined, and in the third section, Oğuz Atay and the novel Dangerous Games are focused on. Finally, in the fourth section, the two works are compared in the light of Jungian psychology and a conclusion is tried to be reached. Keywords: Individual, Oğuz Atay, Hermann Hesse, Analytical Psychology, self