Inferiority complex and identity-shame constitute some of the most corrosive psychological conditions produced by systems of social stratification, and their manifestations in literature reveal how power inequities are internalized within marginalized subjects. Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970) and Yashica Dutt’s memoir Coming Out as Dalit (2019) provide two historically and geographically distinct but psychologically resonant explorations of how oppressed individuals come to see themselves through the distorting lens of dominant hierarchies race in Morrison’s African American context and caste in Dutt’s Indian context. Despite the different structures of oppression each text confronts, both articulate how inferiority is not merely imposed from above but rooted deeply within the individual psyche, emerging through processes of socialization, discrimination, humiliation, and internalized ideology. This paper undertakes a comparative critical analysis of inferiority complex and identity-shame in both texts. Using Alfred Adler’s inferiority complex, Frantz Fanon’s racial epidermalization, Silvan Tomkins’ affect theory, and Erving Goffman’s stigma theory, the study situates both texts pwithin global structures of oppression that shape emotional selfhood.