Abstract
Tahsin Yucel's short story “Ayna” (Mirror), in his book Aykiri Oykuler, depicts a day when the protagonist Professor Tarik Uysal engages in introspection after his wife breaks up with him, holds a mirror to the transition from Structuralism to Poststructuralism and from the Imaginary to the Symbolic, and examines the conict between these two distinct periods and states of awareness. Although the transition from the Imaginary to the Symbolic may mean a change for Tarik Uysal, it could also mean becoming assimilated and being unable to keep one's distinctive traits, which is the inevitable end for the socalled individuals imprisoned in bourgeois discourses and are bound to lose their distinguishing features. Through the protagonist, Yucel portrays the ctitious and arbitrary nature of truth, narrates the transition from the Imaginary to the Symbolic and from Structuralism to Poststructuralism, and displays how the bourgeois discourses culminate in the dissolution of individual characteristics and the construction of stereotypes replacing individuals.
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