“Analysis of Esther’s Suicide in the Bell Jar in Terms of Attempt to Return to the Mother’s Womb”

In a psychoanalytic reading of a literary work, it is basically important to dig the unconscious of that work. by a psychoanalytical reading of sylvia plath’s well-known novel the bell jar, it could be said that the main fantasy in the novel is suicide. in this study, it is asserted that the psychoanalytic origin of suicide in the main character’s mind, who is esther, is related to freud’s “death instinct” and lacan’s theory about the wish to return to the archaic wholeness with mother. in this respect, based on the statements and biographical data of the main character, it is mentioned that suicide, as a desired phenomenon, is seen as a solution not dissolution for the suffering psyche and this solution lies on the way that is returning to the mother’s womb.