sudhir kakar

In ‘Toussaint Louverture’ beschrijft historicus Sudhir Hazareesingh het leven van Toussaint Louverture (1743-1803). Louverture werd geboren als slaaf,

Feelings, impulses, wishes, and fantasies-the dynamic content of the inner world-occupy the deepest recesses of the psyche. It is through introspectio

This volume includes some of the path-breaking essays by well-known psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar on themes ranging from Hindu childhood, modern mysticis

Culture and Psyche is a collection of Sudhir Kakar's essays on cultural psychology, which analyses various facets of Indian identity and sexuality thr

Sudhir Kakar, a psychoanalyst and scholar, brilliantly illuminates the ancient healing traditions of India embodied in the rituals of shamans, the tea

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-

This volume explores current images of afterlife/afterdeath and the presence of the dead in the imaginations of the living in Indian and Western tradi

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

This book discusses the complexities of love and the nature of erotic passion as these appear in the great love stories of the world. Starting with th