Personality development in the field of psychoanalysis and gender

Psychologists consider several factors involved in the formation of a neurotic personality. As Freud considered biological factors important in childhood; Horney considers the lack of a sense of security in childhood as the reason for the formation of Basic anxiety. In order to defend himself,

. In this research, Sara Salar's novel Is it or isn't it is analyzed based on the opinions of Horney and some other psychoanalysts using the qualitative content analysis method. The result is that; The childhood of the women in the novel in an unstable environment, along with fears and anxieties, has caused the emergence of neurotic characters. The women in the novel, who did not have a bond with their mother in their childhood, cannot understand motherhood in their adulthood. In the first novel, the son of the female character becomes a case for projecting the problem that women seem to have with men, and this problem is shown with the metaphor of love, which, according to Horne, is the desire for affection. In the novel, this concept becomes wider. The women of the novel are parts of the narrator's own existence, and the reaction of men towards women is actually a reaction to parts of his own existence. The organic self-idea flows in the text of the novel in such a way that the women themselves approve of it. Women confirm stereotypical beliefs by aligning with gender stereotypes, and men are still at the top of attention.