Freud is among the entirely fictional characters featured in Robert Seethaler's novel The Tobacconist. The data in the novel concretely show that the fictional Freud is the Austrian neurologist, critic and psychoanalysis theorist Sigmund Freud. This approach points to a complex point in terms of literary theory. While Freud, who is included in the novel, is a fictional figure on the one hand, he is also the real Freud himself with his entire life on the other. All the data, from the street he lives on to the way he leaves Vienna or his jaw prosthesis, are characteristics of the real Freud. One of these characteristics that the fictional Freud also carries is the psychoanalytic method he uses. This study examines Sigmund Freud as a figure caught between the real and fictional universes within the scope of the novel The Tobacconist and questions this situation within the framework of literary theory. The study progresses text-oriented, but it can turn to historical data at necessary points. The aim of the study is to present a different perspective on the problem of reality and fiction through an original research object.

Robert Seethaler, The Tobacconist, Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis.