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In Eugene O’Neill there is a visible disillusionment with the modern human conditions. The material progress that defines the contours of American Dream finds a critical space in his plays. He considers the American dream as a source of decadence. And unlike his contemporaries, he does not find the source of this fall in the material conditions. For him, the experiencing human soul is the seat of discontentment and unhappiness. The present study positions O’Neill in psychoanalytical paradigm of critical interpretation to trace how human soul is affected by modernity. The characters in Mourning Becomes Electra find themselves in a state of existence that they cannot find any escape from it. The more they try to get free, the more they are trapped by existential human conditions. I have applied Jacques Lacan argument to trace how the soul faces the split between the real and imaginary when it becomes a part of the symbolic order. On human’s entry into language, part of the self is completely lost that can never be recovered. Such a loss creates fear and anxiety in human sphere. The human beings then remain in search of the lost self that Lacan terms as object a. It is the fate of modern human to remain in search of that object and never to find it. Mannons represent human beings in the play. And a permanent source of loss is the fate of modern man.

Dr Ali Raza Tahir, Khurshid Alam. (2017) LACAN AND SUBJECT FORMATION IN EUGENE O’NEILL’S MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA, Al-Hikmat: A Journal of Philosophy, Volume 37, Issue 1.
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