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The human psyche, with its experiences, relationships, and perceptions all woven into it like threads in a tapestry, can sometimes fray and begin to tear apart, and this creates an internal split and alienation. In this displacement, usually psychologically and existentially grounded, people are lost and unconnected to themselves and their surroundings. This phenomenon, described in the best terms as fragmented identity, is a major theme covered in both Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. This paper will look at the literary travels of Esther Greenwood and Clarissa Dalloway to discuss the experiences of psycho-existential displacement and fragmented identities from the standpoint of psychological studies. Finally, to enumerate the characters who epitomize the harmful effects of fractured identities and their struggles, we can point out Joan and Septimus Warren Smith. In trying to understand their internal battles with society and their deep-felt sense of isolation, one can understand better this difficult psychological condition and how it manifests in modernist as well as confessional writings.