Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. Their failure to resolve inner conflicts of cherishing indian cultural. The inner world sudhir kakar oxford university press. Kakar 1978 noted that indians are more sensitive to or concerned with not the goals of work but with emotional affinity. With the increasing prevalence of the distinctive western world view.
Sudhir kakar has 44 books on goodreads with 3966 ratings. The inner world takes giant strides in its efforts to formulate a different psychology of the hindu, a psychology that fully takes into account the social and cultural milieu. A psychoanalytic study of hindu childhood and society oxford india paperbacks sudhir kakar. I must confess that i have always enjoyed sudhir kakar s writing, and was eager to get my hands on his recent offering, on dreams and dreaming, having completely overlooked the. Possible ex library copy, thatll have the markings and stickers associated from the library. The essential writings of sudhir kakar begins with a comprehen sive introduction and.
Feelings, impulses, wishes, and fantasiesthe dynamic content of the inner worldoccupy the deepest recesses of the psyche. A psychoanalytical study of childhood and society in. Oxford university press, 1978 child development 2 pages. Read, highlight, and take notes, across web, tablet, and phone. It is through introspection and empathy, essential to psychotherapy, that the outside observer can grasp the meaning of the inner world of an individual. A psychoanalytic study of childhood and society in india oxford india paperbacks by sudhir kakar. In this psychoanalytic study of hindu childhood and society, sudhir kakar uses anthropological evidence, clinical data, mythology and folklore to open the door on the daily lives of the hindu family and the shadowy world of collective fantasy. Kakar took his bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from gujarat university, his masters degree diplomkaufmann in business economics from mannheim in germany and his doctorate in economics from vienna before beginning his training in psychoanalysis at the sigmundfreud institute in frankfurt, germany in 1971. A psychoanalytic study of childhood and society in india. The book undoubtedly will set the framework for future psychoanalytic work in india. A psychoanalytic study of hindu childhood and society.
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