India Analysed  (Paperback, Ramin Jahanbegloo,  Sudhir Kakar)

Flowing effortlessly from Sudhir Kakaras descriptions of his early life in undivided India to discussions on the Indian psyche and sexuality, India Analysed discusses Kakaras views on secularism and modern Indian leaders such as Gandhi and Nehru wherein he brings to bear his intellect on a wide range of issues such as philosophy, Indian culture and tradition, and the Partition, and, in doing so, reveals the psychological make-up of the contemporary Indian. Part of Ramin Jahanbeglooas series of interviews with prominent intellectuals who have influenced modern Indian thought, this candid and freewheeling conversation demystifies many of the complex ideas of the eminent psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar. About the Author: Sudhir Kakar, Ramin Jahanbegloo Sudhir Kakar is a psychoanalyst, novelist, and scholar in the fields of cultural psychology and the psychology of religion. Ramin Jahanbegloo, an Iranian philosopher, currently teaches in the Department of Political Science at York University. Table of Contents: Acknowledgements Capturing the Indian Psyche by Ramin Jahanbegloo I/ From Uttarakhand to Harvard An Innocent World Violence from Afar The Partition Trauma Imagining Gandhi Encounters with Spirituality An Idea of Germany The Beautiful Mind of Eric Erickson Between Gandhi and Freud II/ The Making of an Indian Analyst Common Shared Values Reading Freud in India Jung in the Mirror of Indians The Art of being an Analyst in Indian Culture The Role of the Sacred A Guru Culture Living with Cultural Schizophrenia III/ Between Private and Public Modern India and Traditional Morality The Fear of Sexuality The Ganesha Complex Hindu Myths and Sexuality The World of the Kamasutra IV/ The Message of India A Loving Critical Eye A New Indian Struggle India and its Discontents The Art of Indianness A Dialogue between Religion and Secularism V/ SERENITY UNDER FIRE The Mechanisms of Enemy-creating The Pure and the Impure Suffering and Cure A Fragile World The Erotics of Non-Violence Towards a Spiritual Century A Peaceful Eye About the Authors