Intimacy in Alienation: A Psychoanalytic Study of Hindu-Muslim Relationship (Online Presentation)

[2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers]

In India, Hindu-Muslim relationships have had a history of togetherness and conflict over centuries. This talk explores the delicate relationship between the history of the two communities and that of the intimate Hindu-Muslim couple. Exploring the psychological interiority of the couple causes us to rethink the social and cultural phenomena of otherness, identity, and desire. In the unconscious reside the unspoken conflicts that exist between the two communities. What keeps a couple going, and is love enough? The couple must explore the meanings to give to their identity, with or without religion. These themes will be illustrated through a psychobiography that unravels identity and desire in interfaith relationships.

Ashis Roy, PhD, is a psychoanalyst at the Delhi Chapter of the Indian Psychoanalytic Society. He works with adults and couples. For more than a decade he was faculty at the Centre of Psychotherapy and Clinical Research, Ambedkar University and is faculty at CAPA (China-American Psychoanalytic Alliance). He has an interest in clinical and cultural psychoanalysis and likes to participate in thinking spaces where different schools of psychoanalysis can dialogue with each other; he is interested in exploring Asian and South Asian cultures using psychoanalysis. He hosts podcasts on the New Books Network. He recently published the book Intimate Hindu-Muslim Relationships: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Self and the Other (Yoda, 2024).

Practitioners and General Public: $40
Students: Free

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