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Sudhir Kakar, a psychoanalyst and scholar, brilliantly illuminates the ancient healing traditions of India embodied in the rituals of shamans, the teachings of gurus, and the precepts of the school of medicine known as Ayurveda. With extraordinary...

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In this bold, illuminating and superbly readable study, Indias foremost psychoanalyst and cultural commentator Sudhir Kakar and anthropologist Katharina Kakar investigate the nature of Indian-ness. What makes an Indian recognizably so to the rest ...

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This volume celebrates three streams of knowledge-psychoanalysis, culture, and religion-and their confluence in Kakar's work.

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This volume contains a selection of papers discussed at a seminar held in Delhi under the auspices of the Indian Council of Social Science Research. It is designed for advanced students and practitioners of sociology and social psychology.

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Sudhir Kakar, eminent psychologist, has applied the methods of his discipline to a variety of areas such as literature, music, medicine, mystics, love and violence. This book collects the best of his writings. It includes an introduction analysing...

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This book discusses the complexities of love and the nature of erotic passion as these appear in the great love stories of the world. Revised and updated, this new edition, published after a gap of 25 years, includes an Epilogue which re-evaluates...

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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.

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For decades India has been intermittently tormented by brutal outbursts of religious violence, thrusting thousands of ordinary Hindus and Muslims into bloody conflict. In this provocative work, psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar exposes the psychological ...

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"This work is of importance for psychoanalysts and scholars of the psychology of religion. Kakar makes a scholarly and significant contribution to the objectification of what psychoanalysis and Hindu mystical tradition have in common."--...

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For decades India has been the scene of outbursts of religious violence, thrusting many ordinary Hindus and Muslims into bloody conflict. This work analyzes the psychological roots of Hindu-Muslim violence and examines the subjective experience of...

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For decades India has been the scene of outbursts of religious violence, thrusting many ordinary Hindus and Muslims into bloody conflict. This work analyzes the psychological roots of Hindu-Muslim violence and examines the subjective experience of...

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Sudhir Kakar, India's foremost practitioner of psychoanalysis, has focused his career on infusing this preeminently Western discipline with ideas and views from the East. In "Mad and Divine", he takes on the separation of the spirit and ...

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Shamans, Mystics and Doctors is a detailed and thoroughly fascinating account of the many ways in which the ancient healing traditions of India—embodied in the rituals of shamans, the teachings of gurus and the precepts of the school of medi...

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The concept of genius has been a subject of much speculation and debate since the eighteenth century. However, in a world obsessed with creative genius and the possibilities of the human imagination, the actual workings of the creative process and...

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In the cultural hub of 1880s' Lahore Kay Robinson has taken over as editor of the Civil and Military Gazette. Assisting him is the young and impressionable Rudyard Kipling, a lonely, impulsive man who dreams of becoming a writer. Kipling&apos...

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Set against the backdrop of Indias struggle for independence, this poignant historical novel re-creates the extraordinary true-life relationship between an upper-class British woman and Mahatma Gandhi.

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For more than a century, the cultural imagination of psychoanalysis has been assumed and largely continues to be assumed as Western. Fundamental ideas about human relationships, family, marriage, and gender often remain unexamined and pervade the ...

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Das neue Buch des berühmten indischen Psychoanalytikers Sudhir Kakar verbindet intelligente Analyse und Einfühlungsvermögen. Es vertieft das Verstÿndnis des groÿen indischen Dichters Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941).Sudhir Kakar rekonstruiert ...

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Der bekannte indische Psychoanalytiker Sudhir Kakar zeigt, dass die Rolle der Kultur in der Ausbildung der Psyche ebenso grundlegend in der menschlichen Entwicklung ist wie früheste körperliche Erfahrungen oder familiäre Erlebnisse. Kakars Ansatz ...

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Of the many enduring fascinations of the love story, a vehicle for the vicarious satisfaction of our hidden desires and obscure longings, is the pleasure we take in its subversion of the conventions that govern the relationship between the sexes. ...

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This novel is the story of the great sage Vatsyayan, author of Kamasutra, the definitive book on sex. The life of this Yogi who meditates on the life of the God of Love (Kamadeva) is memorably described in the book Kamayogi. Notings on feminine se...

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En este solido, iluminador y ameno estudio, los autores investigan la naturaleza de la "e;indianidad"e;, porque mas alla de las diferencias etnicas o sociales existe una unidad subyacente en la gran diversidad de la India que necesita ser ...

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This volume explores current images of afterlife/afterdeath and the presence of the dead in the imaginations of the living in Indian and European traditions. Specifically, it focuses on the deepest and most fundamental uncertainty of human existen...

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This volume explores current images of afterlife/afterdeath and the presence of the dead in the imaginations of the living in Indian and European traditions. Specifically, it focuses on the deepest and most fundamental uncertainty of human existen...

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This volume explores current images of afterlife/afterdeath and the presence of the dead in the imaginations of the living in Indian and European traditions. Specifically, it focuses on the deepest and most fundamental uncertainty of human existen...

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