A Dot in the Dark Room Psychological Analysis of the Short Stories The Dark Room by Sadeq Hedayat and A Dot on the Map by Sait Faik Abasıyanık

Iran and Turkey witnessed deep and broad social changes in an effort to Modernization in the first half of 20th century. The social changes had wide-ranging consequences, including personal and psychological effects. The purpose of this paper is a psychoanalytic study of two short stories written by two prominent Iranian and Turkish writers, Sadeq Hedayat (1903-1951) and Sait Faik Abasıyanık (1906-1954) for investigating the psychological impact of social changes on their characters. The themes of isolation, reclusiveness and return to womb in the short stories The Dark Room by Hedayat and A Dot on the Map by Abasıyanık examined by means of the defense mechanism of “regression”.