Fathers and Daughters in Aslı Tohumcu’s Stories in the Context of “Learned Helplessness”/“Öğrenilmiş Çaresizlik” BağlamındaBağlamında Aslı Tohumcu’nun Öykülerinde Babalar ve Kızları

Abstract

The subject of women, which is one of the most discussed and examined issues by developing different perspectives in the last century, has expanded its content on topics such as women’s identity, oppression and violence in patriarchal society. In Turkish literature, especially after 1980, it found its expression as an individual and social problem in the pen of writers such as Adalet Ağaoğlu, Tomris Uyar, Leyla Erbil, Sevgi Soysal, Latife Tekin, Mine Söğüt. In such works, individuals who are accustomed to negative attitudes and behaviors that cannot be changed by “learned helplessness” are encountered. It is emphasized that the family, especially the father figure, is effective on the basis of the learned helplessness that leads women and girls to great despair. Today, the projections of learned helplessness behavior, which has extremely traumatic consequences especially on girls and women, in the literature allow us to examine the subject from different perspectives. In this context, this study investigates the causes of learned helplessness based on the stories of Aslı Tohumcu and focuses on the father-daughter relationship, which has an important place among these reasons. In this direction, I aim to contribute to the studies arising from the intersection of literature and psychology; I examined the father-daughter relationship in Tohumcu’s stories around the basic concepts of psychology and learned helplessness theory in psychosocial field.

Keywords

• aslı tohumcu
• story
• learned helpnessless