• Dr. Nalini Bora

Cry, the Peacock, a purely psychological novel is written by Indo-American author Anita Desai. This novel published in 1963, is a landmark in Indian English literature. Anita Desai has introduced a neurotic heroine along with her psychological problems in this novel. The introduction of a female protagonist who is psychologically imbalanced has never happened before in the history of Indian English literature. The female protagonist Maya has undergone traumatic psychic experience since her childhood. Hence, she is much obsessed with death. Anita Desai has effectively conveyed Maya’s journey within as well as her existential problems. Desai has used soliloquy, monologue and stream of consciousness technique to expose the troubled psyche of Maya. This paper is an honest attempt to make a psychoanalytic approach of Anita Desai’s fiction Cry, the Peacock.

psychological, neurotic, frustrations, stream of consciousness, psychoanalytic

"Anita Desai's Cry, the Peacock: A Psychoanalytic Approach.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 10, page no.d268-d272, October-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2210347.pdf

"Anita Desai's Cry, the Peacock: A Psychoanalytic Approach.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 10, page no. ppd268-d272, October-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2210347.pdf