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Gabriel Garcia Marquez works has been most famous for its magic realism and besides that in Marquez's novels human psyche is perfectly mirrored and it can be rightly used as a means of study in the literary world of psychoanalysis. The contrasting psychology of men and women, love relationship, psychological trauma and superstition affects the psyche of the people and illusion the real world unconsciously. The "collective unconscious" of the society is one that carries the plot of the novel and this blending with magic realism serves as the hallmark of the story. Human unconscious drive has its important aspect that forms a significant part of literature. Crime and suicide as some of the sources for mental turmoil which eventually effects human psychology. Marquez's styles of writing are developed as a consequence of social and cultural practices of its contemporary time. In this paper, an effort has been made to analyze the novella, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, in the field relevant to the topic of research and it has been proved that Marquez's novels to some certain degree fits into the study of psychoanalysis besides it's subtle use of magic realism and humor.