Cultural melancholy as represented in orhan pamuk's white castle

Abstract EN

This research paper is meant to explore the use of melancholy as an explanatory model to understand the individual and the collective psyche in dealing with the historical and cultural dilemmas.

It will further explore individual and collective melancholy and their effects, whether destructive or constructive within Orhan Pamuk‟s novel The White Castle, belonging to the modern Turkish literature.