Sevgi Ayakları: “Uysal Özneler” Üzerinden Bir 12 Eylül Okuması

Abstract

This study analyses Sevgi Ayakları, a 1992 play written by Memet Baydur, within the framework of individual alienation and the internalization of social reality prevailed upon by dominant powers. The analysis also draws from sociologists Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann’s theory of social construction of reality. In this regard, the fact that individuals, who have internalized cultural, economic and political realities constructed by the September 12th, 1980 coup d’état through oppression and violence, have become self-alienated from the society is dealt with by considering the breakdown of reality by the dominant powers reigning over social reality, aiming at collective memory. Furthermore, the 1980 coup’s altering individuals’ subjective realities and norms while creating docile subjects through ideological and oppression apparatus is evaluated using Michel Foucault’s concept of “disciplinary power“.