Culture and psyche : selected essays
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Culture and psyche : selected essays
（Oxford India paperbacks）
Oxford University Press, 2008
2nd ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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.
Table of Contents
- 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
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