STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF EDVARD MUNCH'S “JEALOUSY” AND ITS EVALUATION FROM A FREUDIAN PERSPECTIVE

The aim of the research is to make a stylistic analysis of Expressionist painter Edvard Munch's series of paintings titled Jealousy and to evaluate the reasons for using the theme of jealousy in his works from a Freudian perspective. The artist experienced the parent-child relationship, which he should have experienced in his childhood, in his love life in adulthood. The disappointments he experienced in his love life turned the artist into a jealous, melancholic and depressed person. This character of the artist reflected in his works can be closely associated with Freud's Oedipus complex. The Oedipus complex is characterised as the mental process in which the child's love and desire for his/her parents is brought together with sexual desire. In this mental process, the child's love and desire for his/her mother causes the child's feelings of jealousy and anger towards his/her father. Munch's loss of his mother at the age of five, followed by the trauma caused by the loss of his older sister, whom he replaced his mother, caused the artist to complete the Oedipus complex process unhealthily. As a result, the artist reflected the inner world of the traumatic events he experienced in his works on the theme of Jealousy. In his works titled Jealousy, Munch painted women who were involved in his private life together with other men, and included his self-portrait as a third person on a certain surface of his paintings. Munch's works with the theme of Jealousy were observed as the formal expression of the oedipal conflict that the artist had been supposed to experience in his childhood. In the study, the descriptive survey model, one of the qualitative research techniques, was used. The data were collected through written and visual literature review, and analysed using the artefact analysis technique.