Abstract
In Transactional Analysis, as developed by Eric Berne, life is analyzed as being full of games that consist of transactions between the Parent, the Adult, and the Child ego states. As a result of these transactions, games causing bad consequences arise. Once they are reached, the players are filled with negative emotions, which is the cost of the games. This theory became more famous after Games People Play was published in 1964. Oğuz Atay, who made it clear in his diary by summarizing the theory and its concepts that this theory influenced him, wrote his play called Oyunlarla Yaşayanlar (Those Who Live by Games). Oyunlarla Yaşayanlar is about the “bad games” that a history teacher named Coşkun plays with other characters such as Saffet, Servet, Emel and Cemile. We analyze Oyunlarla Yaşayanlar with Transactional Analysis in an attempt to reveal the interactions between egos. As a result, we show that although not all elements in the play are entirely consistent with this theory, it is clear that Oğuz Atay benefited from Transactional Analysis while writing this play, and Coşkun and other characters play the games such as “Alcoholic,” “Kick Me,” “Now I’ve Got You, You Son of a Bitch,” “See What You Made Me Do” and “If It Weren’t For You”. The difference in Atay’s perception of this theory is that he gives a more sociological meaning to the concepts and “bad games” and thinks that they result from the Turkish social structure.
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Abdullah Tahir Özdemir, Karabük University, Türkiye
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Conference: IICAH2024
Stream: Literature/Literary Studies
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Özdemir A. (2024) Oğuz Atay’s ‘Games’: Transactional Analysis Theory in Oyunlarla Yaşayanlar (Those Who Live by Games) and Its Analysis With This Theory ISSN: 2432-4604 – The IAFOR International Conference on Arts & Humanities – Hawaii 2024 Official Conference Proceedings https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2432-4604.2024.10
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2432-4604.2024.10
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