The essential Sudhir Kakar

Author(s)

• Kakar, Sudhir

Bibliographic Information

The essential Sudhir Kakar

Oxford University Press, 2011

1st ed.

Other Title

Sudhir Kakar

Note

Summary: Chiefly on psychoanalysis

Includes bibliographical references (p. [388]-394)

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume includes some of the path-breaking essays by well-known psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar on themes ranging from Hindu childhood, modern mysticism, and India's healing traditions to male-female relations and Hindu-Muslim violence. The seven new, previously unpublished essays focus on the Indian mind and sexuality and the role of empathy in psychoanalysis and spiritual healing. The volume includes a comprehensive Introduction by Manasi Kumar to Sudhir Kakar's large corpus of work and an interview that seeks to unravel the making of India's most well-known psychoanalyst.

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Details

• NCID: BB09710210
• ISBN:
  • 9780198072454
• LCCN: 2011311651
• Country Code: ii
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New Delhi
• Pages/Volumes: xxxii, 394 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BF175.4.C84
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Psychoanalysis and culture -- India
  • LCSH : Ethnopsychology -- India
  • LCSH : Psychoanalysis and religion -- India