Writing and psychoanalysis have always seemed to me to be two fields that go hand in hand and have many similarities. We can say that writing expresses the effort to understand oneself by turning into someone else, and the effort to return to oneself by starting from understanding another. It is a journey of expressing oneself in someone else's image by dressing up as someone else and playing a role. Therefore, a writer who is blind and deaf to others may probably have a hard time touching on issues related to himself. Only in this way can the writer be involved in a process in which he can transform and delve into the layers of his self. Psychoanalysis, which takes place between the psychoanalyst and the analysand, is a long journey in which this transformation occurs directly with the person himself. In a good work of art written with a connection, we definitely come across the layers and content of the author's spirituality. Many materials that the author has hidden from himself in his writing experience have the opportunity to emerge. We can think that the act of writing, which is far from thinking and allows intuition to reveal creative processes, has a feature that reveals the unconscious.
Even if it is under the gaze of the other, the writing area is the place that allows the least self-censorship. This action, done by forgetting, involves a lot of privacy. By abandoning himself, the author establishes an organic relationship with the text and has the opportunity to eliminate everyone except himself. While he continues his work with all his concerns and desires, he talks to the text as if he were a "psychoanalyst". Sometimes he waits and listens, sometimes he continues writing. Time is needed in this effort to return to oneself and understand. Just like in analysis, things change, but we do not know how and when they transform.
The act of writing keeps reason and intuition intertwined, while necessarily bringing with it a state of complete surrender. This situation similarly reminds us of accepting passivity in psychoanalysis. Writing is an associative process. The act of writing, where the unconscious area dominates, resembles the state of being in the flow where the person leaves himself on the couch and the words flow, just like in psychoanalysis. What comes out of the author at that moment definitely bears traces from the depths of his spirituality. For this reason, the emergence of our feeling of amazement and admiration in the face of a work is a reflection of the author's spirituality, conflicts and troubles. It may be due to our encountering a material with realistic traces and its contact with us
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