India Analysed

Sudhir Kakar In Conversation With Ramin Jahanbegloo

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27/01/2015

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108 pages

216.0x140.0mm

Price: 295.00 INR

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ISBN:

9780199457540

Publication date:

27/01/2015

Paperback

108 pages

216.0x140.0mm

Sudhir Kakar & Ramin Jahanbegloo

India Analysed recounts the life and ideas of Sudhir Kakar in his own words and, in the process, gives readers an insight into the psychological make-up of modern Indian. 

Suitable for: General readers as well as those interested in learning more about the culture and ethos of contemporary India.  

Rights:  World Rights

Sudhir Kakar & Ramin Jahanbegloo

Description

Flowing effortlessly from Sudhir Kakar’s descriptions of his early life in undivided India to discussions on the Indian psyche and sexuality, India Analysed discusses Kakar’s views on secularism and modern Indian leaders such as Gandhi and Nehru wherein he brings to bear his intellect on a wide range of issues such as philosophy, Indian culture and tradition, and the Partition, and, in doing so, reveals the psychological make-up of the contemporary Indian.    Part of Ramin Jahanbegloo’s series of interviews with prominent intellectuals who have influenced modern Indian thought, this candid and freewheeling conversation demystifies many of the complex ideas of the eminent psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar.

Sudhir Kakar & Ramin Jahanbegloo

Table of contents

Acknowledgements
 
Capturing the Indian Psyche by Ramin Jahanbegloo
 
I- From Uttarakhand to Harvard
   An Innocent World 
   Violence from Afar
   The Partition Trauma
   Imagining Gandhi
   Encounters with Spirituality
   An Idea of Germany
   The Beautiful Mind of Eric Erickson
   Between Gandhi and Freud
  
II- The Making of an Indian Analyst
    Common Shared Values
    Reading Freud in India
    Jung in the Mirror of Indians
    The Art of being an Analyst in Indian Culture
    The Role of the Sacred
     A Guru Culture
     Living with Cultural Schizophrenia
 
III- Between Private and Public
      Modern India and Traditional Morality 
      The Fear of Sexuality 
      The Ganesha Complex 
      Hindu Myths and Sexuality 
      The World of the Kamasutra
 
IV- The Message of India
    A Loving Critical Eye 
    A New Indian Struggle 
    India and its Discontents 
    The Art of Indianness 
    A Dialogue between Religion and Secularism 
 
V- SERENITY UNDER FIRE
    The Mechanisms of Enemy-creating 
    The Pure and the Impure 
    Suffering and Cure 
    A Fragile World 
   The Erotics of Non-Violence 
   Towards a Spiritual Century 
   A Peaceful Eye 
 

About the Authors 

Sudhir Kakar & Ramin Jahanbegloo

Sudhir Kakar & Ramin Jahanbegloo

Sudhir Kakar & Ramin Jahanbegloo

Description

Flowing effortlessly from Sudhir Kakar’s descriptions of his early life in undivided India to discussions on the Indian psyche and sexuality, India Analysed discusses Kakar’s views on secularism and modern Indian leaders such as Gandhi and Nehru wherein he brings to bear his intellect on a wide range of issues such as philosophy, Indian culture and tradition, and the Partition, and, in doing so, reveals the psychological make-up of the contemporary Indian.    Part of Ramin Jahanbegloo’s series of interviews with prominent intellectuals who have influenced modern Indian thought, this candid and freewheeling conversation demystifies many of the complex ideas of the eminent psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar.

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Table of contents

Acknowledgements
 
Capturing the Indian Psyche by Ramin Jahanbegloo
 
I- From Uttarakhand to Harvard
   An Innocent World 
   Violence from Afar
   The Partition Trauma
   Imagining Gandhi
   Encounters with Spirituality
   An Idea of Germany
   The Beautiful Mind of Eric Erickson
   Between Gandhi and Freud
  
II- The Making of an Indian Analyst
    Common Shared Values
    Reading Freud in India
    Jung in the Mirror of Indians
    The Art of being an Analyst in Indian Culture
    The Role of the Sacred
     A Guru Culture
     Living with Cultural Schizophrenia
 
III- Between Private and Public
      Modern India and Traditional Morality 
      The Fear of Sexuality 
      The Ganesha Complex 
      Hindu Myths and Sexuality 
      The World of the Kamasutra
 
IV- The Message of India
    A Loving Critical Eye 
    A New Indian Struggle 
    India and its Discontents 
    The Art of Indianness 
    A Dialogue between Religion and Secularism 
 
V- SERENITY UNDER FIRE
    The Mechanisms of Enemy-creating 
    The Pure and the Impure 
    Suffering and Cure 
    A Fragile World 
   The Erotics of Non-Violence 
   Towards a Spiritual Century 
   A Peaceful Eye 
 

About the Authors 

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