Chapter One Queset for the Self:Theoretcal and Dramatic Contexts
Language and the Self:Negotiating the Subject between Taylor and Lacan
Modern Drama in Quest of the Self
Chapter Two Fluidity and Uncertainty:Selfhood in Beyond the Horizon,Desire under the Elms ,and Strange Interlude
Multiple Goods and Impossible Integrity
Oscillation Between Two Voices
Transformation in Love
Lost in Synthesis
Chater Three Resistance and Dissolution:Selfhood in The Hairy Ape,All God's Chillun Got Wings,The Great God Brown
Lacan,the Self and the mOther
Shattered in the Mirror
Resisting the Law
Alienation beneath the Mask
Chapter Four Displacement and Disintegration:Selfhood in A Touch of the Poet,The Iceman Cometh,and Long Day's Journey into Night
The Fractured Moral Framework and the Homeless Self
Fragmentation in Transition
Living on Lies
Seeking in the Past
Chapter Five O 'Neill's Quest for Modern Identity
O'Neill,the Playwright and the Self-Seeker
O'Neill,a Contributor to Modern Drama
O'Neill:Negotiating Selfhood in Dramatic Creation
Notes
Works Cited

Chapter One Queset for the Self:Theoretcal and Dramatic Contexts
Language and the Self:Negotiating the Subject between Taylor and Lacan
Modern Drama in Quest of the Self
Chapter Two Fluidity and Uncertainty:Selfhood in Beyond the Horizon,Desire under the Elms ,and Strange Interlude
Multiple Goods and Impossible Integrity
Oscillation Between Two Voices
Transformation in Love
Lost in Synthesis
Chater Three Resistance and Dissolution:Selfhood in The Hairy Ape,All God's Chillun Got Wings,The...