Tarık Tufan's Âşıklara Yer Yok (2023) is a novel of search based on a young academic who ruins his life as a prisoner of platonic love. This search begins with the disappearance of the woman who blinded him (Firdevs) but continues with a journey that evolves into the protagonist (Orhan) searching for himself. One of the advice of a close friend, Orhan arrives in the secluded cosatal town of Saklıkuyu, where he settles in a building that used to be a Bimarhane (mental hospital). Orhan's family history and his relationship with Firdevs are narrated through flashbacks, while Orhan's effort to purify himself from Firdevs and to find himself again takes place in the actual time of the fiction. The backbone of the story is the Prometheus-like attempt of an academic, whose fight with himself and his past never ends, to save Firdevs from his own darkness through the fire of his love for her. Saklıkuyu and Bimarhane have an important place in the story spatially. It is believed that this place actually "summons" Orhan and the other people living in this building. While Orhan tries to recover from the psychological devestation caused by his affair with Firdevs, he also learns about the past of Saklıkuyu and Bimarhane. The novel Âşıklara Yer Yok, in which dreams, various symbols and archetypes are used prominently, is important in terms of analytical psychology. In this study, the novel will be analyzed in the context of archetypal symbolism as outlined by Carl Gustav Jung.
New Turkish Literature, Âşıklara Yer Yok, Tarık Tufan, Jung, analytic psychology.