Authors : Kadhim Hatem Kaibr and Guo Jingjing
Abstract: Many modern people feel that their relationships and self-identity have been lost in American society after the Second World War. This crisis has been taken up by several writers. Edward Albee is one of them who was interested in highlighting the crisis of the troubled man. Albee went deeply into the human psyche and searched for the psychological conflict of the modern American man in order to reflect the emotional need for people to understand the meaning of life. This study introduce anakytical study of modern psychoanalytic theory for the most prominent Albee’s plays. The focus will be The Zoo Story and on the psychological behavior of Jerry and Peter’s characters such as isolation, loneliness and the absence of social relationships.
Kadhim Hatem Kaibr and Guo Jingjing, 2018. Albee’s the Zoo Story in Concept of Modern Psychoanalytic Theory: (An Analytical Study). The Social Sciences, 13: 1088-1093.