Description

About the Book: Intimate Relations This ground-breaking work explores in detail Indias sexualfantasies and ideals, the unlit stage of desire where so much ofour inner theatre takes place. Kakars sources are textual in themain, celebrating the primacy of the story in Indian life About the Author: Sudhir Kakar An internationally renowned psychoanalyst and writer, SudhirKak About the Book: Intimate Relations This ground-breaking work explores in detail Indias sexualfantasies and ideals, the unlit stage of desire where so much ofour inner theatre takes place. Kakars sources are textual in themain, celebrating the primacy of the story in Indian life About the Author: Sudhir Kakar An internationally renowned psychoanalyst and writer, SudhirKakar has been a visiting professor at the universities of Chicago,Harvard, McGill, Melbourne, Hawaii and Vienna and a Fellow at theInstitutes of Advanced Study, Princeton and Berlin. Currently, heis Adjunct Professor of Leadership at INSEAD in Fontainbleau,France. His many honours include the Bhabha, Nehru and NationalFellowships in India, the Kardiner Award of Columbia University,the Boyer Prize of the American Anthropological Association, andGermany???s Goethe Medal. The leading French magazine Le NouvelObservateur listed him as one of twenty-five major thinkers of theworld. He lives in Goa. Sudhir Kakar???s books have been translated into twentylanguages around the world. His non-fiction books include The InnerWorld: A Psychoanalytical Study of Childhood and Society in India;Intimate Relations: Exploring Indian Sexuality; The Analyst and theMystic: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Religion and Mysticism andThe Colours of Violence. His three published novels are The Asceticof Desire, Ecstasy and Mira and the Mahatma. He has also translated(with Wendy Doniger) Vatsyayana???s Kamasutra

About the Book: Intimate Relations This ground-breaking work explores in detail Indias sexualfantasies and ideals, the unlit stage of desire where so much ofour inner theatre takes place. Kakars sources are textual in themain, celebrating the primacy of the story in Indian life About the Author: Sudhir Kakar An internationally renowned psychoanalyst and writer, SudhirKak About the Book: Intimate Relations This ground-breaking work explores in detail Indias sexualfantasies and ideals, the unlit stage of desire where so much ofour inner theatre takes place. Kakars sources are textual in themain, celebrating the primacy of the story in Indian life About the...  Read More