Sudhir Kakar

Culture and Psyche

Selected Essays

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 159g
• ISBN-13: 9780195696684
• ISBN-10: 0195696689
• Artikelnr.: 25525457

Autorenporträt

Sudhir Kakar is a psychoanalyst and writer who lives in Goa, India. Kakar's sixteen books of non-fiction and four of fiction, include The Inner World (now in its 16th printing since its first publication in 1978), Shamans, Mystics and Doctors, The Analyst and the Mystic, Culture and Psyche, The Colors of Violence as also the novels The Ascetic of Desire, Ectasy, and Mira and the Mahatma. His books have been translated into twenty languages around the world

Inhaltsangabe

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