SOCIO-PSYCHOANALYTICAL STUDY OF A WOMAN IN SHASHI DESHPANDES THE DARK HOLDS NO TERRORS

The proposed research studies the Socio-psychoanalysis of a woman in the novel The Dark Holds No Terrors by Shashi Deshpande. There are some points which have been discussed and will help us to understand, how a woman think? How she gets emotionally and psychological depressed and tortured due to social issues in the present Indian society, which have been presented by Shashi Deshpande through her fiction in a literary form. She depicted the main causes behind the womans exploitation in her novel The Dark Holds No Terrors, and exposed the face of patriarchy which is responsible for both men and womens psychological trauma. In the novel Deshpande depicted the marital rape through her protagonist, Sarita who is brutally raped by her husband. Deshpande portrayed in this novel man’s egoism andsense of inferiority due to the growing social status of his wife. She also pictured in the novel the ill mind-set of the society regarding gender discrimination, suffering of a woman, in spite of being an educated and working woman. In this paper the study also shows the remedy to get off from the psychological trauma.