This paper explores the intersection of body, desire, and autonomy through a feminist psychoanalytic critique of the cultural myth of romantic fulfillment as represented in A Doll’s House, Jane Eyre, and The Bell Jar. Drawing on Freud’s theories of repression and desire, Lacan’s notion of the mirror stage and lack, and feminist reinterpretations by Simone de Beauvoir and Bell Hooks, the study examines how patriarchal ideologies distort women’s experience of love and selfhood. Each text reveals a female protagonist’s struggle between emotional dependency and self-realization; Nora’s rebellion against domestic imprisonment, Jane’s negotiation between passion and moral autonomy, and Esther’s psychological fragmentation under societal expectations. The paper argues that idealized love, traditionally viewed as women’s ultimate fulfillment, operates as a mechanism of control that alienates women from their own bodies and desires. By merging feminist psychoanalysis and literary critique, the study reclaims love as a potential site of empowerment rather than submission, advocating for self-aware emotional autonomy.