This paper discusses some excerpts from the book Istanbul: Memories and the City. In this work, the art of narrating the story of a life is to articulate collective memory, singular trajectory and hüzün, affection shared by the inhabitants of the city. The authors exercite reflection about the thought that is contained in the art of writing and establish possible similarities "between" two different fields of knowledge: Orhan Pamuk's literature and Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis. In this approach, are highlighted: melancholy, alienation and the creation of the novelist that echoes the life drives process.
narrative of history of life; the thought of art; melancholy; collective memory; literature and psychoanalysis