Psychoanalysis in Mourning Becomes Electra
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Topic :” Psychoanalysis (Freudism)of Mourning Becomes Electra” Name:- Khamal Krishna R • Paper name:- The American Literature • Paper no:- 10 • M.A. Sem-3 • Roll no:-15 • Email id:[email protected] • Batch Year:-2016/18 • Submitted to:- Department of English ,Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University.
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Topic :” Psychoanalysis (Freudism)of Mourning Becomes Electra”
Name:- Khamal Krishna R
• Paper name:- The American Literature
• Paper no:- 10
• M.A. Sem-3
• Roll no:-15
• Email id:[email protected]
• Batch Year:-2016/18
• Submitted to:- Department of English ,Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University.
“Mourning Becomes Electra”
Introduction
• What is Freudianism?
• Whether Eugene O’Neill had knowledge of Psychology or not?
Unscientific Freudianism
• Freudianism in the play is popular and
unscientific.
• Mourning Becomes Electra is not a carefully
documented case study nor was intended to be.
• Doctrines of Freud were widely misunderstood
&over simplified by public.
Freudianism in Specific details
• It is a oversimplified proportion that every male is attracted to the women who resembles his mother in psysical appearance .
• Every female desire a male who resembles her father.
Mourning Becomes Electra
• How to apply Psycho-analysis in the Mourning Becomes Electra
Mourning Becomes Electra
• The prototype of the female in the play is MarieBrantome.
• Christine & Lavinia both resemble her , especiallyin their “peculiar shade of coppergold hair”.
• Adam says to Lavinia :”Lavinia ,you’re so like yourmother in some ways . Your face is the deadimage of hers . And look at your hair. I know onlyone other woman who had it. it was my mother
Character of Mourning Becomes Electra
Electra Complex
The defination of the Electra complex.
Defination:- The Electra complex is a
psychoanalytic term used to discribe a girl’s sense of competition with her mother for the affection of her father .It is comparable to the Oedipus complex.
Lavinia represent as Electra complex
Son dreaming about mother
• While away at war , Orin dreamt of his mother as an island of peace . The wish to possess mother &the acting out of the father murderer give Orin the classical Oedipal symptoms . This complex moves him to murder Adam.
Works Cited
Black, Stephen. Eugene o'Neill Beyond Mourning and tragedy. 1999. 2017.
Black, Stephen. Eugene o'Neill Beyond Mourning and tragedy. 1999. 2017.
David w.Sievers, Freud on Boadway. Psychoanalysis in Mourning becomes electra. 1955. 2017.
