Turkey Psychoanalyzed, Psychoanalysis Turkified: The Case of İzzettin Şadan

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Research Article| May 01 2018 Turkey Psychoanalyzed, Psychoanalysis Turkified: The Case of İzzettin Şadan Kutluğhan Soyubol Kutluğhan Soyubol Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (1): 57–72. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-4389979 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Kutluğhan Soyubol; Turkey Psychoanalyzed, Psychoanalysis Turkified: The Case of İzzettin Şadan. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 1 May 2018; 38 (1): 57–72. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-4389979 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsComparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East Search Advanced Search Considering translation as a convoluted process of transformation between different cultures, this article scrutinizes the work of İzzettin Şadan, the initiator of psychoanalysis in Turkey. Through translations of the works of Western psychoanalysts such as Sigmund Freud, Ernest Jones, and others, Şadan attempted to produce a Turkish psychoanalytic canon. This canon nonetheless was bound to be different in form as it filtered through the cultural and socio-political structures of the early Turkish Republic. The article argues that Şadanian psychoanalysis accordingly engendered novel psychoanalytic meanings and conceptualizations. It also emerged to represent symbolically a resistance to, if not a break from, some features of Western (Freudian) psychoanalytic discourse, including those that relate to society and civilization. In sum, through a close reading of Şadan's writings, the article demonstrates how the translation of psychoanalysis into Turkish involved in the process its reconfiguration to accommodate the cultural and sociohistorical conditions of the early Turkish Republic. psychoanalysis, Turkey, translation, İzzettin Şadan, nationalism The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press2018 Issue Section: Surveillance and Subjectivity in Modern Turkey You do not currently have access to this content.