Culture & Psyche - Selected Essays

Author: Sudhir KakarPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 2003Language: EnglishPages: 135ISBN/UPC (if available): 0195665988 DescriptionIn this collection of essays on cultural psychology, Sudhir Kakar analyses various facets of Indian identity through sources as diverse as case studies, Indian myths and legends, and popular cinema.These essays reflect his enduring interest in exploring and understanding the Indian psyche through a cultural and psychoanalytic investigation of ideas concerning identity and sexuality.EXCERPTS FROM REVIEWSKakar’s books have laid bare the Indian psyche, and shown how Indian culture, society and family structure condition our behavior as adults…elegant prose, displaying a narrative that grips the lay readers.-Indian ExpressAn indispensable psychoanalytic guide to the involutions of the Indian psyche (male and Female)…Kakar remains our foremost analyst, a latter-day Freud or our troubled times.-The Hindu Written in a lucid and gripping manner…Culture &