Intimate Relations - Exploring Indian Sexuality  (English, Paperback, Sudhir Kakar,)

This book is a detailed exploration and study of Indian sexuality. It discusses the relations that the women and men of India engage in. This book is a popular work of Sudhir Kakar that reveals India’s sexual fantasies and ideals.

Summary of the Book

Learn several aspects of Indian sexuality from this book that celebrates the dominance of the story of Indian life. Most of the information has been collected by the author through texts. Kakar’s work is a practice of cultural psychology that makes the subject more concise for individuals through literary products and social institutions that are present in the Indian culture. These include a variety of examples from modern Indian novels, folktales, hits of the Indian cinema, Gandhi’s autobiography and case studies of his own psychoanalytic practice. The book also contains interviews with women who come from the slums of Delhi. You will also find Sanskrit, Tamil and Hindi proverbs. Read this book to understand varied narratives that are taken from portrait of sexual fantasies and realities. It provides the reader with a view on sexuality by considering the cultural distinctions that are specific to India.

About Sudhir Kakar

Sudhir Kakar is an untrained psychoanalyst and author in the fields of cultural psychology and the psychology of religion. He had been running his own psychoanalytic practice for 25 years in New Delhi before he shifted to his current location in Goa. Before he began his practice, he was a Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the Indian Institute of Management.