Research Fellows

My research focuses on autobiographical memory and life story narratives, particularly how individuals reason about and make sense of the past—not only their own but also the past of others, including close others such as friends and fictional characters encountered through works of fiction. I am interested in whether people construct narratives and engage in biographical reasoning in similar or different veins when reflecting on themselves versus others. Additionally, I explore how people reconstruct narratives about others’ pasts over time, how this process is influenced by retellings from the others involved, and whether frequent engagement with narratives in daily life relates to narrative characteristics.

As a developmental psychologist, I focus on how these narrative skills develop during adolescence—a critical period for identity formation and the development of the ability to narrate past experiences in the form of coherent life stories.

Currently, I am a PhD student at IPU, working under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Tilmann Habermas. My research project, titled “(Auto)Biographical Reasoning in Life Story Narratives of Selves, Close Others, and Fictional Characters and Reconstruction of Life Stories,” is funded by the DAAD Doctoral Programs Grant. This project is conducted in collaboration with Assoc. Prof. Başak Şahin Acar from METU, Turkey.

Another area of my research interest is early socio-cognitive development and parenting. Previously, I contributed to two Turkish state-funded projects. The first, conducted at Ankara University, focused on effective parenting within the framework of the domains of socialization approach. The second, carried out at METU, examined the relationship between mother-father-child triads’ play and memory conversations.

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Als Research Fellow an der IPU unterstütze ich Frau Prof. Dr. Leonie Kampe bei einem Forschungsprojekt zur Untersuchung des Zusammenhangs von Bindungsrepräsentationen und Abwehr.

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My research focuses on the epistemology of psychoanalysis, especially on questions of translation and transnationality. I work at the intersection of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and literary theory, and I am interested in debates on universality, theories of interpretation, postcolonial theory, and the history of ideas. I hold a PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton University (USA) and a degree in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). Before my IPU-KKC fellowship, I served as Postdoctoral Researcher at Aalto University (Finland).

Selected publications:
Marie Langer and the Other Places of Psychoanalysis
Forthcoming in Penumbr(a) – A Journal of Psychoanalysis & Modernity, 2024

Hysterical Authority
Problemi International, 2023

Translation Terminable and Interminable: Psychoanalysis Between Vienna and Calcutta
TRANSIT: A Journal of Travel, Migration, and Multiculturalism in the German-speaking World, 2021

Selected presentations:
"Psychoanalysis in Other Places: An Epistemological Perspective"
Invited talk at the online lecture series "Cultural psychology and social theory," jointly organized by the Kilian Köhler Centre (KKC) at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and the BML Munjal University (BMU) in Gurugram, India, November 8th, 2024

Discussant at Psychoanalysis & Radical Psychiatry Conference, organized by the FREEPSY project and the Psychosis Therapy Project. London, UK, November 16th and 17th, 2024

“Dispersed Transference: Francesc Tosquelles and the Saint-Alban Hospital,” Midlands Conference in Critical Thought (MCCT). Nottingham, UK, April 2024

“Psychoanalytic Translation as Mediation,” Research Workshop Contemporary Theory in the End Times. Tampere University, Finland, March 2024

“Maneuvering for limits,” International Society of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy 2023 Conference: Limits, Frontiers, Rims, and Borders. Nicosia, Cyprus, September 2023

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