Grief, understood as the anguish and sense of void experienced in the wake of losing something the individual holds dear, is a process governed by its own internal psychological dynamics, one that, when it fails to reach healthy resolution, leaves traumatic imprints upon the self. Turning to the act of writing offers an intelligible path through this chronic grief, which is both persistent and corrosive to the individual’s integration into everyday life. Accordingly, this study places at its centre the cathartic and rehabilitative function that literature assumes in the negotiation of trauma and grief. The artist’s transformation of neurotic conflicts and the lossinduced void into aesthetic form — through the mechanism of sublimation, emerges as the foundational dynamic by which grief may evolve into a process capable of resolution. Drawing on Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil’s narrative Bir Acı Hikâye, Adalet Ağaoğlu’s “Hüzzam Mavisi”, and Ömer Seyfettin’s short story “İlk Namaz”, the study examines the ways in which personal losses are transmuted into autobiographical trajectories of healing. The study ultimately argues for the therapeutic agency of the literary text, positioning these works as symbolic acts of mastery, naming and thereby containing melancholia as an otherwise wordless suffering, and rescuing the subject from psychic disintegration.