The book explores the shifting perceptions on the body and the self in the Indian socio-cultural and cultural situations from the psychological angle as reflected in the fictional work of Sudhir Kakar. It analyzes the themes of gender, sexuality and subjectivity in the selective novels of Sudhir Kakar. Sudhir Kakar is an Indian psychoanalyst, novelist and author in the fields of cultural psychology and the psychology of religion. His essays and novels are ...
