James Baldwin's “Giovanni's Room” was his second novel, after his pathbreaking memoiristic Go Tell It on the Mountain. . “Giovanni's Room” has been extensively discussed by many literary critics, particularly Black writers. Most have commented on the homosexuality, exile and alienation. But, no psychoanalytic study exists to our knowledge. We will study this work from the perspective of its undertone of deterioration, death and its entanglements by the putrefied mother who enters very early in the novel, yet, her deadly tendrils entangle the protagonist and almost anyone David touches sensually throughout.