Gülfem Aşlakcı is currently working on her master’s thesis in the field of Comparative Literature. The topic of her thesis is as follows: This study compares the influences of characters in Peyami Safa’s novel “Dokuzuncu Hariciye Koğuşu” and Joanne Greenberg’s “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden” through a psychoanalytic lens, grounded in the authors’ own life stories. By examining the thoughts, attitudes, and reactions of the characters to the societal conditions they experienced, the study aims to uncover the similarities and differences between them. The findings reveal that despite differences in their economic, social, and cultural contexts, the characters share more commonalities than expected.
