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This research holds substantial scholarly significance due to its intervention within Pamuk studies and its broader theoretical implications for literary psychology. Despite extensive critical engagement with Pamuk’s fiction, sustained application of Jungian analytical psychology to A Strangeness in My Mind remains absent. Existing criticism privileges sociopolitical, postmodern, or Freudian paradigms, often at the expense of symbolic interiority. By introducing a Jungian framework, this study addresses a critical lacuna and demonstrates the interpretive value of analytical psychology for contemporary world literature (Rowland 39; Bodkin 6). The research thus establishes a new critical trajectory within Pamuk scholarship. At the level of literary theory, the study contributes to renewed debates concerning the relevance of Jungian criticism within modern literary studies. Scholars such as Susan Rowland and Paul Bishop argue that Jungian approaches offer ethical and symbolic insights that resist reductionist readings of subjectivity (Rowland 44; Bishop 2007, 18). This research supports such claims through rigorous close reading that treats archetypes as dynamic narrative structures rather than static symbols. The study therefore reaffirms Jungian criticism as a viable and methodologically precise interpretive practice. The research also carries broader significance for studies of urban subjectivity. Mevlut’s psychic condition reflects a form of inward estrangement that cannot collapse into Marxist alienation or postmodern fragmentation. Jungian theory offers a conceptual vocabulary for distinguishing psychic incompletion from social displacement (Jung, Archetypes 289). By applying this framework to a non-Western urban novel, the study expands the geographical scope of analytical psychology and contributes to comparative literary discourse on modernity, memory, and selfhood. As such, the research represents a priority area for interdisciplinary literary scholarship.