Culture and Psyche
Selected Essays
Price: 375.00 INR
ISBN:
9780195696684
Publication date:
20/08/2008
Paperback
160 pages
216x140mm
Price: 375.00 INR
ISBN:
9780195696684
Publication date:
20/08/2008
Paperback
160 pages
Part of Oxford India Paperbacks
Second Edition Edition
Sudhir Kakar
A new edition including 3 additional essays and a new introduction
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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
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
Ethical Decision-Making in School Mental Health
James C. Raines, Nic T. Dibble


