Analysis Of Kırıkkale Elegies in The Light of Freud's Concepts of Mourning and Melancholia

Kırıkkale Ağıtlarının Freud’un Yas ve Melankoli Kavramları Işığında Analizi

Abstract

In this research, it is aimed to examine the Kırıkkale tradition of lamentation and Kırıkkale laments with a special emphasis in this context, as well as how they function as a tool of emotional expression, search for meaning and social solidarity. It was also examined within the framework of Freud's concepts of mourning and melancholy. The research adopted qualitative research methodology. This analysis of the lamentations in Kırıkkale aims to understand the efforts of the mourners to cope with the processes of loss, internal conflict and melancholy. The experience of loss and grief is universal and a fact of life. Laments are tools developed in accordance with the musical structure as a form of emotional expression, describing the process of death on a verbal level. Laments function as harbingers of death. After death, they contain guidance that helps the survivors find balance in their lives and end the uncertainties. According to the research results; Considering that melancholia involves the process of understanding the meaning of loss and integrating this loss, lamentation provides a basis for the lamenters in their search for this meaning. It has also been found that when lament is shared within the community, it provides social support and connection to the individual. Thus, it was concluded that laments have an effective role in ending the melancholy process.