Kakar
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 11494 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kakar |
| APELLIDO | Kakar |
| FIRMA | KAKAR |
| AFILIACIONES | Centre for the Study of Developing Societies |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7932-1947 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 130 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1968 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Psyche and Nature
Psychoanalysis and its discontents
This paper discusses the ways in which psychoanalytic perspectives may have been limited by the Western cultural context in which they originated and explores the potential of the Indian cultural imagination to broaden psychoanalytic thinking about ego formation, the nature of Eros, bisexuality, and individuation. The case is made for the need to retain the diverse perspectives offered by the cultural imaginations of different civilisations despi…
Last Claims
Drawing on literary fiction from North and Latin America, England and India, the paper analyzes the intersecting layers of possessive desire and soulful longing in the sexual imagination of the aged protagonists of the novels as they seek to navigate the still powerful current of Eros in the last stage of their lives. The sexual imagination of the elderly person is not only an artifact of individual life history and the stage of his life cycle bu…
Imaginations of Death and the Beyond in India and Europe
The Inner World
Feelings, impulses, wishes, and fantasies—the dynamic content of the inner world—occupy the deepest recesses of the psyche. It is through introspection and empathy, essential to psychotherapy, that the outside observer can grasp the meaning of the inner world of an individual. First published in 1978 and hailed by critics globally as the best application of psychoanalysis to Indian culture, The Inner World is an inquiry into the development of In…
Tracings The Inner World in Culture and History
The Uses of Ritual
My childhood memories of rituals derive from the house of my grandparents, a dark three-storied house in a narrow lane off a main bazaar of Lahore, a house with little space but much warmth, which was the site of many ritual festivities. The rituals were celebrated within a typical Indian extended family, a sprawling collection of my father’s dozen brothers, sisters, cousins and assorted uncles and aunts on visits that in some cases could extend …
Tales of Love, Sex, and Danger
First published in 1986, this ground-breaking work addresses two complex and very human emotions—love and erotic passion—as these appear in the great love stories of the world. Starting with the story of Romeo and Juliet and its roots in European Christianity, the authors uncover hidden depths of cultural and universal significance in famous romantic tales of the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent—‘Layla and Majnun’, ‘Heer and Ranjha’, ‘Sohn…
Culture and Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis and Eastern spiritual healing traditions
An exploration of the theory and practice of healing in the Eastern spiritual traditions reveals the centrality of the idealizing transference in the patient-seeker's interaction with the spiritual teacher or the guru although the aim and development of the idealizing transference in the spiritual traditions are quite different from those of self psychology. In its emphasis on the guru's empathy and in claiming that its meditative practices radic…
Leadership in Indian Organizations from a Comparative Perspective
This study explores the `culturalist' thesis in `hybrid' firms in India. The term hybrid refers to companies that represent (through business education or business association) a mixture of traditional Indian and Western practices. Such firms currently dominate the Indian industrial economy. The objective of this study was to identify some of the dimensions on which the top leadership of hybrid Indian business organizations differs from Western b…
The Colors of Violence
The Colors of Violence
Religious conflict in the modern world
This paper begins with a discussion of various identity threats in the social-political arena that bring the group aspect of our personal identity to the forefront. It then goes on to describe the development of religious group identity and its relation to violence between religious groups, with the Hindu-Muslim violence in India as its main illustration
Clinical Work and Cultural Imagination
With illustrations from clinical experience in India, this paper discusses the question of the cultural rootedness of psychoanalysis as a therapeutic method and some of the cultural differences, chiefly, the dominance of the theme of "maternal enthrallment," both in Indian cultural imagination and in clinical work with male patients
Intimate Relations
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 …
The Analyst and the Mystic
Shamans, Mystics and Doctors
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 sympathy, open-mindedness, and insight Sudhir Kakar has drawn from both his Eastern and Western backgrounds to show how the gulf that divides native healer from Western psychiatrist can be spanned. Rose…
The Work of Culture. Gananath Obeyesekere
Other People's Myths
Psychoanalysis and Anthropology
Compte rendu de deux ouvrages de G. Obeyesekere, Medusa's Hair : An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience, Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1981| The Cult of the Goddess Pattini, Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1984. L'aspect psychologique des symboles et l'utilisation des theories psychanalytiques
Culture and Self
Psychoanalysis and Religious Healing
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND RELIGIOUS HEALING:SIBLINGS OR STRANGERS? Get access SUDHIR KAKAR SUDHIR KAKAR * Sudhir Kakar is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi, maintains a private psychoanalytic practice in New Delhi, and was a Member of the School of Social Sciences, Institute for Advanced Studies, at Princeton (1983–84). He presented this paper as a 75th Anniversary Lecture at the 1984 Annual Meeting of the …
Erotic Fantasy
Shamans, Mystics and Doctors. A Psychological Inquiry into India and Its Healing Traditions
The Colors of Violence
Clinical Work and Cultural Imagination
With illustrations from clinical experience in India, this paper discusses the question of the cultural rootedness of psychoanalysis as a therapeutic method and some of the cultural differences, chiefly, the dominance of the theme of "maternal enthrallment," both in Indian cultural imagination and in clinical work with male patients
The Human Life Cycle
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN psychoanalysis, especially in its emphasis on ego strengths (Heinz Hartmann) or basic virtues (Erik Erikson), show a startling affinity to the Hindu asrama (stages of life) theory. Though the phases of human development, like infancy, adolescence, etc., have been studied both by academic psychology and by psychoanalysis, the study of the individual life cycle as a functional whole and as a link in the chain of has been comp…
Shamans, Mystics and Doctors
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 sympathy, open-mindedness, and insight Sudhir Kakar has drawn from both his Eastern and Western backgrounds to show how the gulf that divides native healer from Western psychiatrist can be spanned. Rose…
Psychoanalysis and Eastern spiritual healing traditions
An exploration of the theory and practice of healing in the Eastern spiritual traditions reveals the centrality of the idealizing transference in the patient-seeker's interaction with the spiritual teacher or the guru although the aim and development of the idealizing transference in the spiritual traditions are quite different from those of self psychology. In its emphasis on the guru's empathy and in claiming that its meditative practices radic…
Frederick Taylor
Psychoanalysis and its discontents
This paper discusses the ways in which psychoanalytic perspectives may have been limited by the Western cultural context in which they originated and explores the potential of the Indian cultural imagination to broaden psychoanalytic thinking about ego formation, the nature of Eros, bisexuality, and individuation. The case is made for the need to retain the diverse perspectives offered by the cultural imaginations of different civilisations despi…
The Female Lingam
The main purpose of the paper is to refute the rigid psychoanalytic determinism which holds that we cannot help attributing an exclusively male or female meaning to certain sexual symbols. Simultaneously it attempts to show that symbols are not as context-bound as structuralists are inclined to think, since the reversals of meanings discussed mostly refer to the individual symbol without affecting the context. A series of iconographic symbols and…
The Inner World
PROLOGUE PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION I INTRODUCTION: AIMS AND APPROACH CULTURE AND PERSONALITY PERSONAL WORD II THE HINDU WORLD IMAGE: THE THEME OF FUSION-MOKSHA LIFE TASK AND LIFE CYCLE-DHARMA IDEAS OF TIME AND DESTINY III MOTHERS AND INFANTS: PSYCHO-SOCIAL MATRIX OF INFANCY: FEMININE IDENTITY IN INDIA THE 'GOOD MOTHER' THE 'BAD MOTHER' INFANCY AND EGO: ORIGINS OF IDENTITY IN A PATRIARCHAL CULTURE IV FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: PSYCHO-SOCIAL MATRIX …
Imaginations of Death and the Beyond in India and Europe
Leadership in Indian Organizations from a Comparative Perspective
This study explores the `culturalist' thesis in `hybrid' firms in India. The term hybrid refers to companies that represent (through business education or business association) a mixture of traditional Indian and Western practices. Such firms currently dominate the Indian industrial economy. The objective of this study was to identify some of the dimensions on which the top leadership of hybrid Indian business organizations differs from Western b…
Religious conflict in the modern world
This paper begins with a discussion of various identity threats in the social-political arena that bring the group aspect of our personal identity to the forefront. It then goes on to describe the development of religious group identity and its relation to violence between religious groups, with the Hindu-Muslim violence in India as its main illustration
Erotic Fantasy
Reflections on psychoanalysis, Indian culture and mysticism
The Logic of Psychohistory
The Human Life Cycle
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN psychoanalysis, especially in its emphasis on ego strengths (Heinz Hartmann) or basic virtues (Erik Erikson), show a startling affinity to the Hindu asrama (stages of life) theory. Though the phases of human development, like infancy, adolescence, etc., have been studied both by academic psychology and by psychoanalysis, the study of the individual life cycle as a functional whole and as a link in the chain of has been comp…
The Logic of Psychohistory
"Psyching" Psycho-History
Frederick Taylor
Frederick Taylor
Frederick Taylor
The Uses of Techno-Psychohistory
The Female Lingam
The main purpose of the paper is to refute the rigid psychoanalytic determinism which holds that we cannot help attributing an exclusively male or female meaning to certain sexual symbols. Simultaneously it attempts to show that symbols are not as context-bound as structuralists are inclined to think, since the reversals of meanings discussed mostly refer to the individual symbol without affecting the context. A series of iconographic symbols and…
The Inner World
PROLOGUE PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION I INTRODUCTION: AIMS AND APPROACH CULTURE AND PERSONALITY PERSONAL WORD II THE HINDU WORLD IMAGE: THE THEME OF FUSION-MOKSHA LIFE TASK AND LIFE CYCLE-DHARMA IDEAS OF TIME AND DESTINY III MOTHERS AND INFANTS: PSYCHO-SOCIAL MATRIX OF INFANCY: FEMININE IDENTITY IN INDIA THE 'GOOD MOTHER' THE 'BAD MOTHER' INFANCY AND EGO: ORIGINS OF IDENTITY IN A PATRIARCHAL CULTURE IV FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: PSYCHO-SOCIAL MATRIX …
Reflections on psychoanalysis, Indian culture and mysticism
Shamans, Mystics and Doctors. A Psychological Inquiry into India and Its Healing Traditions
Psychoanalysis and Religious Healing
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND RELIGIOUS HEALING:SIBLINGS OR STRANGERS? Get access SUDHIR KAKAR SUDHIR KAKAR * Sudhir Kakar is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi, maintains a private psychoanalytic practice in New Delhi, and was a Member of the School of Social Sciences, Institute for Advanced Studies, at Princeton (1983–84). He presented this paper as a 75th Anniversary Lecture at the 1984 Annual Meeting of the …
Erotic Fantasy
Culture and Self
Psychoanalysis and Anthropology
Compte rendu de deux ouvrages de G. Obeyesekere, Medusa's Hair : An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience, Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1981| The Cult of the Goddess Pattini, Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1984. L'aspect psychologique des symboles et l'utilisation des theories psychanalytiques
Other People's Myths
Shamans, Mystics and Doctors
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 sympathy, open-mindedness, and insight Sudhir Kakar has drawn from both his Eastern and Western backgrounds to show how the gulf that divides native healer from Western psychiatrist can be spanned. Rose…
The Work of Culture. Gananath Obeyesekere
The Analyst and the Mystic
Clinical Work and Cultural Imagination
With illustrations from clinical experience in India, this paper discusses the question of the cultural rootedness of psychoanalysis as a therapeutic method and some of the cultural differences, chiefly, the dominance of the theme of "maternal enthrallment," both in Indian cultural imagination and in clinical work with male patients
Intimate Relations
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 …
The Colors of Violence
Religious conflict in the modern world
This paper begins with a discussion of various identity threats in the social-political arena that bring the group aspect of our personal identity to the forefront. It then goes on to describe the development of religious group identity and its relation to violence between religious groups, with the Hindu-Muslim violence in India as its main illustration
The Colors of Violence
Leadership in Indian Organizations from a Comparative Perspective
This study explores the `culturalist' thesis in `hybrid' firms in India. The term hybrid refers to companies that represent (through business education or business association) a mixture of traditional Indian and Western practices. Such firms currently dominate the Indian industrial economy. The objective of this study was to identify some of the dimensions on which the top leadership of hybrid Indian business organizations differs from Western b…
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