Psychoanalysis, culture, and religion : essays in honour of Sudhir Kakar

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Psychoanalysis, culture, and religion : essays in honour of Sudhir Kakar

edited by Dinesh Sharma

Oxford University Press, 2014

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An internationally renowned psychoanalyst, novelist, and scholar of cultural psychology and the psychology of religion, Sudhir Kakar has taught at several universities in India, United States, and Europe. His many honours include the Kardiner Award of Columbia University, Boyer Prize for Psychological Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association, and Germany's Goethe Medal. Converging multiple disciplines, Kakar's work represents the breakthrough in Indian social thought and indigenous knowledge systems, something anthropologists and historians of religions have been advocating for many years. This collection of essays celebrates three streams of knowledge-psychoanalysis, culture, and religion-and their confluence in Kakar's work as a kind of post-independence renaissances of the Indian mind. Including essays by leading scholars like Wendy Doniger, John Munder Ross, Manasi Kumar, Robert A. LeVine, and others, this book addresses important issues within the context of Indology and South Asian Studies: psychoanalysis; modern psychology and the study of lives across the life cycle; the study of culture and society in all its structural, symbolic, and social formations; and the study of religion with a special emphasis on the history of religious traditions, on the one hand, and praxis or religious practices, on the other. The volume includes a substantial introduction by Dinesh Sharma.

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  • 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

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