Intimacy in Alienation: A Psychoanalytic Study of Hindu-Muslim Relationships
Book Announcement by Ashis Roy (India)
Roy, A. (2024). Intimacy in alienation: A psychoanalytic study of Hindu-Muslim relationships. Yoda Press.
In India, Hindu-Muslim relationships have had a history of togetherness and conflict over centuries. At various historical times, different histories have emerged while some remain under the shadows. Intimacy in Alienation: A Psychoanalytic Study of Hindu-Muslim Relationships explores the delicate relationship between the history of the two communities and that of the intimate Hindu-Muslim couple. We will find that as we explore the psychological interiority of the couple, it makes us inevitably rethink social and cultural phenomena of ‘otherness,’ ‘identity’ and desire. Wrapped in the unconscious are the unspoken conflicts that exist between the two communities in contemporary times. This work explores what keeps a couple going and whether love is enough. A space is created thereby for the meaning(s) the couple would like to give to their identity, with or without religion. Ashis Roy uses interviews, psychobiographies, literary sources and psychoanalytic theory to unravel identity and desire in inter-faith relationships in this book from Yoda Press.
Ashis Roy, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst (IPS Kolkata, IPA London). In his clinical practice he works with adults and couples. He was faculty at Ambedkar University Delhi for over a decade and is presently faculty at CAPA (China-American Psychoanalytic Alliance). He hosts podcasts on the New Books Network. He is interested in clinical and cultural psychoanalysis and likes to participate in thinking spaces where different schools of psychoanalysis can dialogue with each other.
Ashis Roy, Ph.D.
New Delhi, India
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