Mother Perception in Feyyaz Kayacan’s Stories

Feyyaz Kayacan’s literary life began with poetry, but he was known for his stories in Turkish literature. He was a trilingual writer who composed books in French, English, and Turkish. He published in England and joined the British surrealist group in the 1940s. But when he discerned that being a Turk who published French poetry books in England did not contribute to his development as an author, he started to write in Turkish. In his autobiographical stories, he aimed to reinterpret his past and re-create himself by examining his painful childhood years. These stories include first-person memories and glimpses of his inner world, embellished with surrealist, existential, avant-garde, and absurd elements. Kayacan, a pioneer in Turkish literature for his stories full of symbolic narrations, vivid images, and original metaphors, influenced the “Second New” and “1950 Generation” movements. Besides postmodernism first appeared in his works. Kayacan’s stories focus on emotional wounds made by his mother. The image of mother is important in the stories of Kayacan, who felt this trauma throughout his life. In light of Carl Gustav Jung's Mother Archetype, we examine how the mother image takes shape in Kayacan’s stories