Sam Shepard'ın oyunlarındaki işlevsiz ailelere ve yabancılaşmış bireylere psikanalitik yaklaşım

In this thesis, Sam Shepard's family plays, namely Curse of the Starving Class, Buried Child, True West, and Fool for Love are analysed according to Freud's psychoanalysis theory. My hypothesis is that the Father Complex in these plays leads to dysfunctional families that experience Oedipus Complex, Uncanny occurrences, Castration Anxiety which entail violence and incest. The relationship between the sons and fathers is going to be the main focus as Sigmund Freud puts emphasis on how father-son relationship shapes individuals' identities. Sam Shepard's characters are in the quest for identity but find themselves entrapped by their father's curse. With the unconscious urge of repetition compulsion, the characters, especially sons act-out their traumas on stage. Through their actions and dialogue, their repressed past comes to light. The effects of these traumas on families are going to be analyzed with Freudian psychoanalytical terms in depth.