“katharina kakar”

‘A compelling work on the cultural character of the Indian people…both provocative and revealing’—Shyam Benegal in Outlook‘A remarkably perceptive analysis of Indian character’—Khushwant Singh In this bold, illuminating and superbly readable study, India’s foremost psychoanalyst and ... More

In this bold, illuminating and superbly readable study, India’s foremost psychoanalyst and cultural commentator Sudhir Kakar and anthropologist Katharina Kakar investigate the nature of ‘Indian-ness’. What makes an Indian recognizably so to the rest of the world, and, more importantly, to his ... More

This unique book analyzes the standardization and technology adoption of digital broadcasting. It provides a historic perspective on industry standardization of TV technology, covering the most recent developments in the European, US and Japanese audio-visual sectors.This unique book analyzes the st... More

As a ‘commentator on the worlds of love and hate’, India’s foremost psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar has isolated the ambivalence, peculiarly Indian, to matters as various—and connected—as sex, spirituality and communal passions.In Intimate Relations, the first of the well-known books in this ed... More

Feelings, impulses, wishes, and fantasties -- 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. This thought-p... More

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 ... More

Disgust can be as much part of erotic love as violence although the evocation of disgust has rarely reached the extremes portrayed in the fiction of Marquis de Sade. In de Sade stories, erotic unions are routinely preceded, accompanied or followed by the smearing and eating of faces, drinking of or ... More