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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.

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

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Mapping the uncharted territory at the edges of psychological knowledge, these fascinating essays explore compelling aspects of dreams and dreaming. They discuss topics as diverse as memorable dreams, lucid dreaming, the role of dreams in the evolution of human consciousness and the relationship between dreams and the waking state. In 'The Dream and Its Embedding', psychoanalyst Patrick Mahony demonstrates, with absorbing case studies, how dre...

This volume explores current images of afterlife/afterdeath and the presence of the dead in the imaginations of the living in Indian and Western traditions. Specifically, it focuses on the deepest and most fundamental uncertainty of human existence---the awareness of human mortality, on which depends any assignment of meaning to earthly existence as also to notions of worldly and otherworldly salvation. This central idea is addressed in the li...

Gopal è un giovane straordinario che, nel canto e negli strabilianti mutamenti del suo corpo, rivela doti assolutamente fuori dal comune. Madhavacharya, un monaco del convento di Galta, decide perciò di condurlo nel suo monastero e di diventare il suo guru. Gopal, chiamato Ram Das Baba, è riconosciuto come uno dei sommi maestri del suo tempo, quando si imbatte in Vivek, un giovane dai costumi occidentali del tutto diverso da lui. Tra il giovan...

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's literary pursuits have been dismissed as fanciful and foolish by his previous boss. But Robinson is different. He encourages the young 'Ruddy', allowing him greater creative freedom at the Gazette. As he bec...

Il Mahatma Gandhi ha costruito nel cuore del Gujarat, la sua terra natia, una comunità ideale, una società di donne e uomini liberi, capaci di disciplina, tolleranza e rigore nei principi e negli atti che improntano la loro vita. In questo mondo pacifico e austero irrompe un giorno Madeleine Slade, l'impetuosa figlia di un ammiraglio britannico. Ha un solo desiderio: diventare la discepola prediletta del Mahatma. Il romanzo ruota attorno alla ...

This volume explores current images of afterlife/afterdeath and the presence of the dead in the imaginations of the living in Indian and Western traditions. Specifically, it focuses on the deepest and most fundamental uncertainty of human existence---the awareness of human mortality, on which depends any assignment of meaning to earthly existence as also to notions of worldly and otherworldly salvation. This central idea is addressed in the li...

Cultura e psiche" è fondamentale per lo studio del rapporto tra contesti culturali e dinamiche psichiche. Kakar ha raccolto in questo libro i suoi più significativi approfondimenti sulla relazione tra l'esperienza clinica e gli assunti teorici della psicoanalisi, che hanno origine nella tradizione scientifica occidentale, e le strategie culturali attinenti ai modi di fronteggiare il disagio psichico nelle società non occidentali, con una parti...

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 the authors' assertions about romantic and erotic love in the context of contemporary psychoanalysis and modern literary theory.

A seamless blend of intelligent analysis with real empathy, Young Tagore is a firstofitskind psychobiography that deepens our understanding of Rabindranath Tagore. By carefully reconstructing the crucial years of Tagore's childhood and youth, preeminent psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar examines the young prodigy's formative experiences and unravels how they shaped his creative genius. In laying bare the inner workings of Tagore's brilliance, Kakar r...

Plumbing the hearts of women and men in India and exploring the relations they engage in, Sudhir Kakar gives us the first full-length study of Indian sexuality. His groundbreaking work explores India's sexual fantasies and ideals, the "unlit stage of desire where so much of our inner theater takes place." Kakar's sources are primarily textual, celebrating the primacy of the story in Indian life. He practices a cultural psychology that distills...

The Centrepiece Of The Analyst And The Mystic Is The Absorbing Story Of The Nineteenth-Century Bengali Mystic And Hindu Saint Sri Ramakrishna. Using Ramakrishna S Life As A Case Study, Sudhir Kakar Discusses In Depth Three Interacting Factors That He Feels May Be Essential In The Making Of An Ecstatic Mystic: Particular Life Historical Experiences, The Presence Of A Specific Artistic Or Creative Gift, And A Facilitating Cultural Environment. K...

This volume includes some of the path-breaking essays by well-known psychoanalyst Sudhire Kakar on themes ranging from Hindu childhood, modern mysticism, and India's healing traditions to male-female relations and Hindu-Muslim violence.

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.

Delhi, 1654. Negli harem di corte, silenziose oasi di bellezza, le chiacchiere tra i potenti eunuchi che vegliano sul benessere, e sulle libertà, di mogli e concubine reali si fanno sempre più fitte e preoccupate. La dinastia Mogul è al tramonto: l'imperatore, i suoi quattro figli e gli innumerevoli ministri vivono in un lusso sfrenato e decadente mentre già si tessono intrighi per conquistare la successione al trono e placare la sete di poter...

An inquiry into the development of Indian identity, the book examines the network of social roles, traditional values, and customs with which the threads of Indian psychological development are interwoven. This fourth edition includes a Prologue which situates the work in the contemporary scenario.