Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Religion

Essays in Honour of Sudhir Kakar
Herausgeber: Sharma, Dinesh

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Produktbeschreibung

Converging multiple disciplines, Sudhir Kakar's work represents a breakthrough in Indian social thought and indigenous knowledge systems. This collection of essays by prominent psychoanalysts, sociologists, anthropologists, and cultural theorists celebrates three streams of knowledge-psychoanalysis, culture, and religion-and their confluence in Sudhir Kakar's work as a kind of post-independence renaissance of the Indian mind.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780198076988
• ISBN-10: 0198076983
• Artikelnr.: 40577794

Autorenporträt

Dinesh Sharma is Senior Fellow, Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Research, St Francis College, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword-Asian Explorers of Psyche and Culture: Sudhir Kakar and His
Contemporaries by Robert A. LeVine
* Introduction by Dinesh Sharma
* 1. When a Lingam Is Not Just a Good Cigar Wendy Doniger
* 2. An Island in Mind: Aldous Huxley and the Neurotheologian Jeffrey
J. Kripal
* 3. Sri Aurobindo Demystified: An Essay on Psychology and Religion in
India Dinesh Sharma
* 4. Psychoanalysis and the Problem of Religious Ecstasy June McDaniel
* 5. Mysticism and the Teacher-Student (Guru-Shishya) Relationship: The
Approaches of Patanjali, Jung, and Kakar Harold Coward
* 6. The Mother-Son Symbiotic Dyad and the Positioning of the Oedipus
Complex in the Asian Culture Jhuma Basak
* 7. The Intergenerational Transmission of Culture in Conflict: The
Story of a New York Mongrel John Munder Ross
* 8. Can Leaders Change? Yes, But Only If They Want To Manfred F.R.
Kets de Vries
* 9. Kakar's Contribution Manasi Kumar
* 10. Let Me Tell You a Story about Hindu Temples and Runaway Trolleys
Richard A. Shweder
* 11. Murder in Meriah Country: Ethno-political Conflict in the
Kondhmals Usha Menon
* About the Editor and Contributors