SOURCE: "The Longing For Death in O'Neill's 'Strange Interlude' and 'Mourning Becomes Electra'," in Literature and Psychology, Vol. XXXI, No. 1, 1981, pp. 39-48.
In the following essay, Feldman illuminates the influence of Sigmund Freud's concept of the death instinct on Eugene O'Neill's plays Strange Interlude and Mourning Becomes Electra, but acknowledges that O'Neill's characters seek death as an escape from the pain of living. rather than as an instinctual urge.
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