Author: Sudhir Kakar
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 135
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0195665988

Description

In this collection of essays on cultural psychology, Sudhir Kakar analyses various facets of Indian identity through sources as diverse as case studies, Indian myths and legends, and popular cinema.

These essays reflect his enduring interest in exploring and understanding the Indian psyche through a cultural and psychoanalytic investigation of ideas concerning identity and sexuality.

EXCERPTS FROM REVIEWS

Kakars books have laid bare the Indian psyche, and shown how Indian culture, society and family structure condition our behavior as adultselegant prose, displaying a narrative that grips the lay readers.
-Indian Express

An indispensable psychoanalytic guide to the involutions of the Indian psyche (male and Female)Kakar remains our foremost analyst, a latter-day Freud or our troubled times.
-The Hindu

Written in a lucid and gripping mannerCulture & Psyche is a serious study of Indias family values.
-Sunday Observer

Kakar brings a freshness and new insight into the book.
-Business Line

Contents

Culture in Psychoanalysis (1995)

Encounters of the Psychological Kind: Freud, Jung, and India (1994)

Psychoanalysis and Non-Western Cultures (1987)

Clinical Work and Cultural Imagination (1994)

The Maternal-Feminine in Indian Psychoanalysis (1989)

Maternal Enthrallment: Two Case Histories (1979, 1980)

The Search for Middle Age in India (1994)

Modernity and Female Childhood (1995)

Index