奥尼尔因幼年母爱不足而产生恋母情结与缺失体验。他在恋母的同时,又因幼年时母亲对他的疏离与隔阂而心生怨恨。于是他就把对母亲的爱与恨诉诸剧本,通过在剧作中贬母来“攻击”其母亲,发泄对母亲的怨恨。但仅贬母仍不能尽释心中之恨,他就在剧作中把妻子作为替罪羊,转移攻击妻子,从而使其剧作呈现杀妻情结。奥尼尔把对母亲的复杂的感情迁移到其剧作中其他女性人物身上,以各种方式影响到其作品中女性人物的塑造与他对整个女性世界的态度,从而使其作品呈现出明显的女性情结。 O’Neill because of lack of motherhood during childhood Oedipus complex and lack of experience. At the same time as Oedipal, he resented his mother’s alienation and estrangement from him. So he resorted to the mother’s love and hate the script, in the play by belittling to “attack” his mother, to vent their mother’s resentment. However, only the almighty mother can not explain his heart’s hatred. Instead, he uses his wife as a scapegoat in the play and shifts his assault on his wife so that his play shows a wife-wife complex. O’Neill shifted the complex feelings of her mother to other females in her plays, influencing in many ways the shaping of feminine characters in his work and his attitude towards the feminine world, thereby making her work appear to have distinctly feminine Complex.