Mad and divine
Subtitle: spirit and psyche in the modern world
By: Sudhir Kakar.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780226422879
Subjects: Osho, -- 1931-1990; ʼBrug-smyon Kun-dgaʼ-legs-pa, -- 1455-1529; Gandhi, -- Mahatma, -- 1869-1948; Freud, Sigmund, -- 1856-1939; Psychoanalysis and religion; Spirit; Spirituality
Description: "Mad and Divine looks at the interplay between spirit and psyche and the moments of creativity and transformation that occur when the spirit overcomes desire and narcissism. Sudhir Kakar examines this relationship in religious rituals and healing traditions - both Eastern and Western - as well as in the lives of some extraordinary men: the mystic and guru Rajneesh, Gandhi, and the Buddhist saint Drukpa Kunley."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Childhood of a spiritually incorrect guru: Osho; title: Seduction and the saint: the legend of Drukpa Kunley; title: Desire and the spiritual quest: the legend of Drukpa Kunley (contd.); title: Gandhi and the art of practical spirituality; title: Empathy in psychoanalysis and spiritual healing; title: The uses of ritual; title: Religion and psyche: reading Freud's "The future of an illusion" in Goa; title: Afterword: spirit and psyche.