I prepared my presentation.It is my academic part of M.A. English sem-3 Department of English M.K.B.U.my presentation is paper no-10 American Literature.and my topic is "Psychoanalysis of Mourning Becomes Electra.

1. 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:-krishnakhamal01@gmail.com
• Batch Year:-2016/18
• Submitted to:- Department of English
,Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar
University.

2. “Mourning Becomes Electra”

5. Introduction
• What is
Freudianism?
• Whether Eugene
O’Neill had
knowledge of
Psychology or not?

7. 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.

9. 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.

10. Mourning Becomes Electra
• How to apply Psycho-
analysis in the Mourning
Becomes Electra

11. Mourning Becomes Electra
• The prototype of the female in the play is Marie
Brantome.
• Christine & Lavinia both resemble her , especially
in their “peculiar shade of coppergold hair”.
• Adam says to Lavinia :”Lavinia ,you’re so like your
mother in some ways . Your face is the dead
image of hers . And look at your hair. I know only
one other woman who had it. it was my mother

12. Character of Mourning Becomes
Electra

14. 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

16. 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.

19. 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.