Abstract
This article analyzes the father-son relationship in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest film The Wild Pear Tree (2018), which tells the story of a son who desires a life as unlike his father’s narrow, provincial life as possible, only to find himself following in his father’s footsteps almost against his will. Drawing upon Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, this article examines the film as an oedipal drama that portrays the predicament of a son who grapples with an ineffectual, humiliated father that fails to embody the paternal function. It undertakes to show how the father-son conflict eventually culminates in the father’s transformation from an object of contempt into an identificatory ideal for his son, who becomes heir to a legacy of disillusionment and thwarted hopes.
Highlights
The most renowned Turkish director in contemporary cinema,1 Nuri Bilge Ceylan has garnered acclaim for his slow-paced, meditative, visually evocative films, which have received glowing reviews and numerous awards in international competitions and festival circuits
The Wild Pear Tree (Ahlat Ağacı, 2018), Ceylan’s much anticipated follow-up to Winter Sleep, focuses on a father-son relationship that is fraught with feelings of resentment, guilt and hostility on both sides
The aim of this article is to analyze the father-son relationship in The Wild Pear Tree drawing upon insights from Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis
Summary
The most renowned Turkish director in contemporary cinema,1 Nuri Bilge Ceylan has garnered acclaim for his slow-paced, meditative, visually evocative films, which have received glowing reviews and numerous awards in international competitions and festival circuits.
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