Gabriel Garcia Marquez s Love in the Time of Cholera primarily deals with the anatomy of illusory and immature love and its psychological impact on the characters in a society where rules, norms, systems, etc. are of crucial significance. Its prime emphasis is on the explication of the individual characters and their identity formation in a restrictive society. To light on this, the novel is treated psychoanalytically in this work, for it delineates how the personalities spend the life of illusion and hence suffer from neurosis. However, when grown up, people come to the realization that they have been in illusion and suffering because of the continuous repression of their instinctual desires or dreams which, if not fulfilled ,lead to depression and ultimately to the suicide and /or death. In this regard this work can be useful for the researchers, psychiatrists, readers and others who are involved and interested in the study of the psychologically disturbed personalities in a society.