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." Rosemary Dinnage, "New York Review of Books" "Each chapter describes the geographical and cultural context within which the healers work, their...
Sudhir Kakar, a psychoanalyst and scholar, brilliantly illuminates the ancient healing traditions of India embodied in the rituals of shamans, the tea...
For decades India has been intermittently tormented by brutal outbursts of religious violence, thrusting thousands of ordinary Hindus and Muslims into bloody conflict. In this provocative work, psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar exposes the psychological roots of Hindu-Muslim violence and examines with grace and intensity the subjective experience of religious hatred in his native land. With honesty, insight, and unsparing self-reflection, Kakar confronts the profoundly enigmatic relations that link individual egos to cultural moralities and religious violence. His innovative psychological...
For decades India has been intermittently tormented by brutal outbursts of religious violence, thrusting thousands of ordinary Hindus and Muslims into...
It is 1925 and India's struggle for independence is in disarray, impeded by factionalism among its leaders and rising incidents of unrest across the country. Meanwhile, having withdrawn himself from active politics, Mahatma Gandhi is in an ashram immersed in what he considers the most important undertaking of his life--the creation of a community that is wholly dedicated to the highest standards of self-discipline, tolerance, and austerity. Into this world comes a young British woman named Madeline, the daughter of a British admiral. Madeline has set her heart on becoming Gandhi's...
It is 1925 and India's struggle for independence is in disarray, impeded by factionalism among its leaders and rising incidents of unrest across the c...
Sudhir Kakar, India s foremost practitioner of psychoanalysis, has focused his career on infusing this preeminently Western discipline with ideas and views from the East. In "Mad and Divine," he takes on the separation of the spirit and the body favored by psychoanalysts, cautioning that a single-minded focus on the physical denies a person s wholeness. Similarly, Kakar argues, to focus on the spirit alone is to hold in contempt the body that makes us human.
"Mad and Divine" looks at the interplay between spirit and psyche and the moments of creativity and transformation that occur when...
Sudhir Kakar, India s foremost practitioner of psychoanalysis, has focused his career on infusing this preeminently Western discipline with ideas a...
Die USA und Europa streiten sich um den greren Einfluss in Indien, einem Land, das alle Wachstums- und Entwicklungsrekorde schlgt. Das Land gibt viele Rtsel auf. Wer sind die Inder? Gibt es eine gemeinsame indische Identitt, die eine Milliarde Menschen teilen? Dieses Buch sprt sensibel und kenntnisreich dieser Frage nach, entwirft ein eindrucksvolles Portrt des modernen Indien und erffnet neue Einsichten in eine Kultur, die sicher zu den einflussreichsten in diesem Jahrhundert gehren wird.
Die USA und Europa streiten sich um den greren Einfluss in Indien, einem Land, das alle Wachstums- und Entwicklungsrekorde schlgt. Das Land gibt viele...
This novel is the story of the great sage Vatsyayan, author of Kamasutra, the definitive book on sex. The life of this Yogi who meditates on the life of the God of Love (Kamadeva) is memorably described in the book Kamayogi. Notings on feminine sexuality by Vatsyayan create upheavals in Kamayogi's readings, set against the socio-cultural, economic and historicla backdrop of the Gupta period in Indian history. A special creative work by Sudheer Kakkar. Trans: Suresh M G
This novel is the story of the great sage Vatsyayan, author of Kamasutra, the definitive book on sex. The life of this Yogi who meditates on the life ...
Second, in contemporary Western societies, marked by structural atheism, people look at literature, the arts and mass media to study their depiction and reading of traditionally religious questions of disease, death and the Beyond.
Second, in contemporary Western societies, marked by structural atheism, people look at literature, the arts and mass media to study their depiction a...
