Discourse of Psychoanalytic Insight and the Sufferings of Immigrants in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices

South Asian novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is one of the most famous diasporic writers. She is also a great short-story writer, poet, and essayist. Her books have been translated into 29 languages including Hebrew, Dutch and Japanese. Her themes are relevant to South Asian Diasporic experience, History, Myth, Magic Realism and Cultural Diversity, Women Immigrants etc. Her works largely set in India and United States. There may be a galaxy of women writers. Most of her works give the insight and lively experience to the readers. Her poetic language in the text is far more appreciable. The reader may fall in love with the way of her expression and her beautiful poetic way of writing. She explores all her immigrant experiences through her writing. She gives life to her stories and fiction in such an excellent manner. She expresses her own pain and suffering especially through her women characters. Many autobiographical incidents are employed by her. So that she is distinguished from all other immigrant writers. Most of her works deal with the images of Bengali customs and habits. This paper is an attempt to deal with the psychoanalytic perspectives of the characters in Mistress of Spices and the predominant role of culture which focuses traumatic and sufferings of immigrants.