The Restoration of Archetypal Memory in the Creative Work of Isa Mughanna

This article examines the problem of the restoration of archetypal memory in the creative work of Isa Mughanna from psychoanalytic and mythopoetic perspectives. The study focuses on the writer’s novellas “Saz,” “Telegram,” “Kollu Koxa,” and “The Sound of the Flute,” analyzing how collective unconscious structures and archetypal models are artistically represented within these texts. The research is based on the theoretical approaches of Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung, Jan Assmann, and Maurice Halbwachs concerning psychoanalysis, archetypes, and cultural memory. The analysis demonstrates that motifs such as the saz, the flute, the wise old man, the master craftsman, conscience, and moral responsibility function as symbolic expressions of collective memory and national identity. In “Saz,” music appears as a model of collective harmony; in “Telegram,” archetypal memory is reconstructed through ethical choice and moral responsibility; in “Kollu Koxa,” the wise old man archetype embodies collective consciousness and folk wisdom; while in “The Sound of the Flute,” trauma and sublimation are expressed through acoustic symbols connected with collective memory. The study concludes that archetypal memory in Isa Mughanna’s prose is not presented as a static phenomenon but as a dynamic psychological and cultural process continuously transformed under historical and social conditions. The writer’s artistic system reveals the continuity of national identity through symbolic and archetypal structures rooted in the collective unconscious.