Şüheda Pehlivan 116611055 Psychoanalytic Approach to the Father Figures in the Example of Çukur In this article, there is a psychoanalytic approach to the father figure in the case of tv series “Çukur”. After examining Freud’s and Lacan’s father figures, we will tell the father figure in the Çukur scenes by talking about the tv series. Freud has three different father figures, that are Urvater, Oidipus and Real Father. Freud’s father figures should begin with the comncept of Urvater, that is the first father. According to Freud; the Urvater (first father) is firstly borderless, which means lacking boundaries, and having no outer edge. Second speciality of Urvater is limitless, that means endless and infinite. Last matter of Urvater is anxiety-provoking, which is an emotion of worry, fear and annoying, irritating. 1 There is a violence in Urvater, and the words must act to avoid violence. The Urvater-first father has a dominant natüre and is inherently narcissistic. This Urvater possesses an ego, that is connected to other people. 2 Freud’s other father figure is Oidipus, which means the father killed by his son, while trying to kill his son. 3 According to Freud, the last father figure is the Real Father, that means the real life dads. In this case; mother is the woman, father is the law, child is the phallus. Father is the law, however, law is not the same thing with ideal. 4 To the Freud’s opinion, the father was a kind of mediator of the external circumstantial settlement of the subject in unconsciousness. The primal dependence of mother and the child can be coincided with preOidipal event by a kind of periodization, that is interrupted by the intervention of the father from outside. 5 1 Özgür Öğütcen, “Fathers, Sons and Identity” (Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture Class, Istanbul Bilgi University Social Sciences Faculty, Istanbul, March 17, 2018). 2 Sigmund Freud, Totem ve Tabu, çev. Niyazi Berkes (İstanbul: Çağdaş Yayıncılık, 1998), . 3 A.g.e.: March 17, 2018. 4 A.g.e.:March 17, 2018. 5 Paul Verhaeghe, “Sexuation”, The collapse of the function of the father and its effects on gender roles, 131-154 (USA: Duke University Press, 2000) 135.