The essential writings of Sudhir Kakar
By: with an introduction by T.G. Vaidyanathan.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New Delhi; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
Subjects: Psychoanalysis and culture -- India.; Ethnopsychology -- India.
Description: On psycoanalysis and culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [382]-386) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I. CHILDHOOD AND IDENTITY; title: 1. Mother and Infants; title: 2. The Child in Indian Tradition; title: 3. The Revolutionary Yogi: Childhood of; title: Swami Vivekananda; title: II. CULTURE AND HEALING; title: 4. Lord of the Spirit World; title: 5. The Guru as Healer; title: 6. The Body Image; title: 7. Clinical Work and Cultural Imagination; title: 8. The Maternal-Feminine in Indian Psychoanalysis; title: III. EROTIC LOVE; title: 9. The Cloistered Passion of Radha and Krishna; title: 10. Gandhi and Women; title: 11. Lovers in the Dark; title: IV. RELIGION AND PSYCHE; title: 12. Ramakrishna and the Mystical Experience; title: 13. The Viituuus virago; title: 14. Meeting the Mullahs; title: 15 Religious Conflict in the Modem World; title: Notes and References; title: bibliography.