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Abstract
The present study deals with the exclusive novel of Elfriede Jelinek, an Austrian woman writer who delves the psychological derangements of human society through her characters as well as her own experiences revealed in the novel The Piano Teacher. She explores the character, a young woman Erika who is all along control by her mother, family and society. As a disturbed psyche she turns herself perverse, violence and self-degradation. This novel is a good example for those who under the rigid circumstance and extreme control would burst out of violence and degradation both inner and outer lives. The protagonist, who lives under her domineering mother, controls all her passions and desires which later turn herself as a rebel against her own mother and reflects the masochistic nature with her student. The novel reveals the love-hate relationship between mother and daughter; teacher and student. At the climax, the character loses her identity both as a teacher and daughter and bounded her with the social power structures under perverse emotions and self -degradation as much possible to satisfy her emotional and physical needs.