Indian Identity

As A Commentator On The Worlds Of Love And Hate India S Foremost Psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar Has Isolated The Ambivalence Peculiarly Indian To Matters As Various And Connected As Sex Spirituality And Communal Passions.In Intimate Relations The First Of The Well-Known Books In This Edition He Explores The Nature Of Sexuality In India Its Politics And Its Language Of Emotions. The Analyst And The Mystic Points Out The Similarities Between Psychoanalysis And Religious Healing And The Colours Of Violence Is His Erudite Enquiry Into The Mixed Emotions Of Rage And Desire That Inflame Communalism.