Culture and Psyche

Selected Essays

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ISBN:

9780195696684

Publication date:

20/08/2008

Paperback

160 pages

216x140mm

Price: 375.00 INR

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ISBN:

9780195696684

Publication date:

20/08/2008

Paperback

160 pages

Second Edition Edition

Sudhir Kakar

A new edition including 3 additional essays and a new introduction

Rights:  World Rights

Second Edition Edition

Sudhir Kakar

Description

Culture and Psyche is a collection of Sudhir Kakar's essays on cultural psychology, which analyses various facets of Indian identity and sexuality through sources as diverse as case studies, Indian myths and legends, and popular cinema. The second edition of this classic includes a new introduction and three additional essays which explore issues like riots, the psychology of Islamist terrorism, among others.

About the Author


Sudhir Kakar, Senior Fellow, Centre for Study of World Religions, USA

Second Edition Edition

Sudhir Kakar

Table of contents

Introduction: Culture in Psychoanalytic Thought
Culture and Psychoanalysis: A Personal Journey
Encounters of the Psychological Kind: Freud, Jung, and India
Psychoanalysis and Non-western Cultures
Clinical Work and Cultural Imagination
The Maternal-Feminine in Indian Psychoanalysis
Maternal Enthrallment: Two Case Histories
The Search for Middle Age in India
Rumours and Riots
On the Psychology of Islamist Terrorism

Second Edition Edition

Sudhir Kakar

Second Edition Edition

Sudhir Kakar

Second Edition Edition

Sudhir Kakar

Description

Culture and Psyche is a collection of Sudhir Kakar's essays on cultural psychology, which analyses various facets of Indian identity and sexuality through sources as diverse as case studies, Indian myths and legends, and popular cinema. The second edition of this classic includes a new introduction and three additional essays which explore issues like riots, the psychology of Islamist terrorism, among others.

About the Author


Sudhir Kakar, Senior Fellow, Centre for Study of World Religions, USA

Table of contents

Introduction: Culture in Psychoanalytic Thought
Culture and Psychoanalysis: A Personal Journey
Encounters of the Psychological Kind: Freud, Jung, and India
Psychoanalysis and Non-western Cultures
Clinical Work and Cultural Imagination
The Maternal-Feminine in Indian Psychoanalysis
Maternal Enthrallment: Two Case Histories
The Search for Middle Age in India
Rumours and Riots
On the Psychology of Islamist Terrorism