Unveiling Desire and Trauma: A Psychoanalytic Feminist Reading of Shobhaa De’s Starry Nights

This paper employs the psychoanalytic theories of Freud, Lacan, Kristeva, and Chodorow to analyze Shobhaa De’s Starry Nights. It says that Aasha Rani’s broken identity is the result of trauma, repression, and desire from her childhood. The novel is more than just a critique of Bollywood’s exploitative glamour; it tells a complex story about feeling alone, surviving, and finding one’s own identity.