KAZILIK KOCA OĞLU YEGENEK BOYU ÜZERİNE HERMENEUTİK BİR TAHLİL DENEMESİ
A HERMENEUTIC ATTEMPT TO ANALYZE THE EPIC OF YEGENEK, SON OF KAZILIK KOCA

Summary/Abstract: The main theme of the Epic of Yegenek Son of Kazılık Koca, which is jointly included in the Dresden and Vatican copies of the Book of Dede Korkut, is the struggle of the hero to set his captive father from captivity. The behavior of Yegenek, who is the hero of the narrative, is different from that of his father, Kazılık Koca, his uncle Emen, and the twenty-four Oğuz Lords he took with him as fellow travelers. Reinforcing his physical and military power with positive values such as a strategic mind, unity consciousness, trust, and belief, Yegenek succeeded at what other Oghuz lords had failed to achieve and defeated Direk Tekür, son of Arşın. Thus, Yegenek stands out as the representative of a new hero type that brings together the previous generation of heroes within the framework of their own fighting methods. In addition, Yegenek's struggle contains intense references in terms of psychoanalysis and archetypal symbolism, as it bears the signs of the conflicts experienced by the individual in the process of existence. The aim of this study is to reveal the semantic world of The Epic of Yegenek, son of Kazılık Koca, based on the explicit and implicit references in the text. Therefore, in this study, Yegenek's adventure is subjected to an interdisciplinary hermeneutic reading process by making use of the data of the fields of study such as psychology, theology, and archetypal symbolism, as well as the literature, narrative, and folklore. Yegenek's struggle is considered as a part of Oğuz's collective existence struggle within the scope of the study; on the other hand, it is evaluated as the process of discovering the unconscious area of the individual and confronting the negative features that were previously attempted to be pushed into this area by the consciousness. In addition, the dream that Yegenek saw on his way to Düzmurd Castle, and which constitutes a secondary plane of reality in the narrative, is considered as one of the important stages of his initiation and reaching psychic integrity, and is examined within this framework.

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