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Religion and Psychoanalysis in India

Author : Sabah Siddiqui
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317375033
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Psychoanalysis in India written by Sabah Siddiqui and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion and Psychoanalysis in India questions the assumptions of an established scientific, evidence-based global mental health paradigm by examining the practices of faith-based healing. It proposes that human beings demonstrate a dual loyalty: to science as faith and faith as science, both of which get reconfigured in the process. In this particular context, science and faith are deployed in ways that are not only different but at times contrary to mainstream discourses of science and religion, and faith healing becomes a point where these two discourses collide head-on in negotiating cultural values and practices. The book addresses key questions, such as: What is the value of 'faith healing' in understanding distress and treatment in different cultural contexts? What is a critical psychological perspective on faith and religious systems? What challenges do alternative religious practices pose to critical psychology? How should we re-imagine clinical work in a context marked by science and religion? Situated between 'West' and 'East', between the global mental health movement and local faith-based practices in India, the book addresses a wide audience that includes students and researchers in psychology, cultural and medical anthropology, the sociology of religion, cultural theory, postcolonial theory, and the sociology of science. It will also appeal to policy-makers and practitioners interested in the work of NGOs and the legal frameworks driving mental health movements in India.

Freud's India

Author : Alf Hiltebeitel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190878398
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Freud's India written by Alf Hiltebeitel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sharp contrast between cultures with a monotheistic paternal deity and those with pluralistic maternal deities is a theme of abiding interest in religious studies. Attempts to understand the implications of these two vast organizing principles for religious life lead to an overwhelmingly diverse set of facts and their meanings. In Freud's India, the companion volume to Freud's Mahs-- Sigmund Freud and Girindrasekhar Bose. Hiltebeitel examines the attempts of these two men to communicate with and understand each other and these issues in the heated context of emotionally divisive allegiances. The book is elegant in its nuanced attention to these two thinkers and its tightly controlled exploration of what their interactions reveal about their contributions and limitations as representatives of the psychology and religion of their respective cultures. Anxieties about mothers, says Hiltebeitel, separate Eastern from Western imaginations. They separate Freud from Bose, and they separate Hindu foundational texts from the foundational texts of Judaism.

The Analyst and the Mystic

Author : Sudhir Kakar
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226422836
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book The Analyst and the Mystic written by Sudhir Kakar and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kakar goes beyond the traditional psychoanalytic interpretation of Ramakrishna's mystical visions and practices. He clarifies their contribution to the psychic transformation of a mystic and offers fresh insight into the relation between sexuality and ecstatic mysticism. Through a comparison of the healing techniques of the mystical guru and those of the analyst, Kakar highlights the difference in their healing objectives and reveals the positive psychological aspects of the religious experience.

Mad and Divine

Author : Sudhir Kakar
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226422879
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Mad and Divine written by Sudhir Kakar and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the spirit overcomes desire and narcissism. Kakar examines this relationship in religious rituals and healing traditions— both Eastern and Western—as well as in the lives of some extraordinary men: the mystic and guru Rajneesh, Gandhi, and the Buddhist saint Drukpa Kunley. Enriched with a novelist’s felicity of language and an analyst’s piercing insights and startling interpretations, Mad and Divine is a valuable addition to the literature on the integration of the spirit and psyche in the evolving psychology of the individual.

Freud's Mahabharata

Author : Alf Hiltebeitel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190878347
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Freud's Mahabharata written by Alf Hiltebeitel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though Freud never overtly refers to the Mahthe companion volume to Freud's India, Alf Hiltebeitel offers what he calls a "pointillist introduction" to a new theory about the Mah

Vishnu on Freud's Desk

Author : T. G. Vaidyanathan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Vishnu on Freud's Desk written by T. G. Vaidyanathan and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces some of the colonial, postcolonial, and postmodern complexities of psychoanalytical thought as it has been variously applied to Hinduism. From Girindrisekhar Bose's pioneering reflections on the Indian Oedipal wish and the colonial positioning of early psychoanalytic practice in India, to postcolonial cultural criticism and contemporary clinical case studies, the collection spans close to a century of creative, sometimes radical, and always controversial thought about the psychological and theoretical riches of Hinduism.

Psychoanalysis from the Indian Terroir

Author : Manasi Kumar
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498559425
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalysis from the Indian Terroir written by Manasi Kumar and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Psychoanalysis from the Indian Terroir, Manasi Kumar, Anup Dhar, and Anurag Mishra discuss the synergies and diachronic thought that is emblematic of the current psychoanalytic narrative in India and examine what psychoanalysis in India could become. The contributors to this edited collection connect problems around culture, family, traditions, and the burgeoning political changes in the Indian landscape in order to provide critical rejoinders to the maternal-feminine thematic in India’s cultural psyche. Specifically, the contributors examine issues surrounding ethnic violence, therapists’ gender and political identities, narratives of illness, and spiritual and traditional approaches to healing.

Psychoanalytic and Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Women in India

Author : Paula Ellman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429594143
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalytic and Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Women in India written by Paula Ellman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book provides a bridge between psychoanalytic perspectives and socio-cultural issues to shine a spotlight on the experiences of women in India today. Women’s well-being and security has often depended upon their gender positioning while other binaries like rural-urban, class, and caste have also played a crucial role globally and especially in India. Historically, women have been subjected to various forms of oppression that include sex selective abortions, domestic violence, bride burning for dowry, and acid attacks. Threats to women’s security have recently increased with progressive polarization and hardening of socio-political and cultural ideologies. This book assesses how women’s lives are impacted by these social and cultural conventions and stigma, including ideas around motherhood, religion, intimacy and femininity itself, and the psychological implications these have. Topics include the seduction of religion, motherhood in contemporary times, intimacy and violence, and fundamentalist states of mind in the clinical space. While the book echoes a regional specificity, it simultaneously resonates a backdrop of global change of affairs that has its impact on ideological freedom and the concept of inclusivity in terms of gender, race, culture, and politics across the world. For this comprehensive perspective, the effort is to create a platform of authors comprising psychoanalysts, social scientists, scholars from the liberal arts discipline, as well as social activists. In a country where women have been historically subjected to both psychological and physical oppression, this timely and original book will interest a range of scholars interested in gender, mental health and contemporary Indian society, as well as clinicians in the field.

The Oceanic Feeling

Author : J.M Masson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400989695
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Oceanic Feeling written by J.M Masson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By way of a personal note, I can reveal to the reader that I was led to Sanskrit by an exposure to Indian philosophy while still a child. These early mystical interests gave way in the university to scholarly pursuits and, through reading the works of Franklin Edgerton, Louis Renou and Etienne Lamotte, I was introduced to the scientific study of the· past, to philology and the academic study of an ancient literature. In this period I wrote a number of books on Sanskrit aesthetics, concentrating on the sophisticated Indian notions of suggestion. This work has culminated in a three-volume study of the Dhvanyaloka and the Dhvanyalokalocana, for the Harvard Oriental Series. Eventually I found that I wanted to broaden my concern with India, to learn what was at the universal core of my studies and what could be of interest to everyone. In reading Indian literature, I came across so many bizarre tales and ideas that seemed incomprehensible and removed from the concerns of everyday life that I became troubled. Vedantic ideas of the world as a dream, for example, to which I had been particularly partial, seemed grandiose and megalomanic. I turned away with increasing scepticism from what I felt to be the hysterical outpourings of mystical and religious fanaticism.

India Analysed

Author : Ramin Jahanbegloo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199088020
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book India Analysed written by Ramin Jahanbegloo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on interviews of Sudhir Kakar by Iranian philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo, India Analysed is a journey into Kakar’s mind—his fertile and unpredictable ways of thinking, and the essential humanism which all his writings signify—recounting the life and ideas of Kakar in his own words. In the process, the book affords readers rare insights into the psychological make-up of the modern Indian. Flowing effortlessly from Kakar’s descriptions of his early life in undivided India to discussions on the Indian psyche and sexuality, the book also dwells on his views on secularism and modern Indian leaders like Gandhi and Nehru. Kakar brings to bear his intellect on a wide range of issues like philosophy, democracy, Indian culture and tradition, and the Partition, and the conversational style of the interviews helps demystify many of his complex ideas. The third in the series of Ramin Jahanbegloo’s interviews of prominent intellectuals who have influenced modern Indian thought, this challenging and engaging volume will interest both a scholarly and an informed lay audience who want to understand India as seen through the eyes of one of the country’s leading contemporary thinkers.

The Inner World

Author : Sudhir Kakar
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Inner World written by Sudhir Kakar and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1981 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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-provoking book examines the network of social roles, traditional values, customs, and kinship rules with which the threads of Indian psychological development are interwoven. In doing so, it reveals important aspects of Indian society, myth, rituals, fables, and arts. It looks at Hindu infancy and childhood in order to show how these are shaped within a specific cultural context.

Mind, Soul and Consciousness

Author : Soumen Mukherjee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000006999
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind, Soul and Consciousness written by Soumen Mukherjee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive volume explores histories and modern reworkings of the ideas of mind, soul and consciousness in South Asia. It focuses on the burgeoning ‘psy-disciplines’ – psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy – and their links with religion, science, philosophy, and modern notions of the mystical and spiritual, not just in South Asia, but around the world. The authors explore the global flows of ideas that gathered pace during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including: the idea(s) of self within ‘Hindu modernities’; the history of relativity of consciousness in Jaina epistemology; Jungian critiques of Cartesian rationalism; Islamic reform vis-à-vis Sufi mysticism; and the re-examination and invocations of key strands of the fields of ‘Indian philosophy’ and the ‘psy-disciplines’ in modern India. Together these chapters stoke a critical engagement with existing conceptual boundaries and categories of mind, soul, consciousness, and body-mind relationship in modern Asian and European spiritual and intellectual traditions. This book will interest scholars and students of cross-cultural philosophy, intellectual history, history of religion, religious studies, and history of the mind sciences. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal South Asian History and Culture.

Islamic Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Islam

Author : Ian Parker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429657234
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Islamic Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Islam written by Ian Parker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering volume brings together scholars and clinicians working at the intersection of Islam and psychoanalysis to explore both the connections that link these two traditions, as well as the tensions that exist between them. Uniting authors from a diverse range of traditions and perspectives, including Freudian, Jungian, Lacanian, Object-Relations, and Group-Analytic, the book creates a dialogue through which several key questions can be addressed. How can Islam be rendered amenable to psychoanalytic interpretation? What might an ‘Islamic psychoanalysis’ look like that accompanies and questions the forms of psychoanalysis that developed in the West? And what might a ‘psychoanalytic Islam’ look like that speaks for, and perhaps even transforms, the forms of truth that Islam produces? In an era of increasing Islamophobia in the West, this important book identifies areas where clinical practice can be informed by a deeper understanding of contemporary Islam, as well as what it means to be a Muslim today. It will appeal to trainees and practitioners of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, as well as scholars interested in religion and Islamic studies.

Psychoanalytic Studies of Religion

Author : Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313019746
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalytic Studies of Religion written by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-09-13 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first critical guide to the essential literature reflecting and expressing psychoanalytic approaches to religion, this volume's concentrates on critical assessments that steer the user toward works of lasting value. The book's first priority is to include publications clearly aimed at continuing the Freudian tradition and contributing to the psychoanalytic study of religion. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of psychology and religion as well as the general reader who is seeking works on those topics. Most of the psychoanalytic literature in English since 1920 is included and is organized in 21 topical sections. Cross-references and indexes increase the usefulness of the work. The author has tried to include every coherent effort, guided by psychoanalytic theory, to offer an explanation, understanding, or interpretation of religion or religious behavior. The work will be of interest in the fields of psychoanalysis, psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, literature, folklore, and religion. Public libraries will find this a valuable reference tool to offer the general reader who is interested in a broad spectrum of ideas.

Shamans, Mystics and Doctors

Author : Sudhir Kakar
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226422798
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Shamans, Mystics and Doctors written by Sudhir Kakar and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 unique approach to healing mental illness, and . . . the philosophical and religious underpinnings of their theories compared with psychoanalytical theory."—Choice

The Inner World

Author : Sudhir Kakar
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195696677
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (966 download)

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Download or read book The Inner World written by Sudhir Kakar and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Inner World is an inquiry into the development of Indian identity. It examines the network of social roles, traditional values, and customs with which the threads of Indian psychological development are interwoven. In doing so, it reveals important aspects of Indian society, myths, rituals, fables, and arts. Hailed by critics from all over the world as the best application of psychoanalysis to Indian culture, this third edition includes an Afterword by Kakar. The Inner World will appeal equally to scholars of social psychology, cultural, studies, anthropology, and sociology, as well as general readers interested in the psychology of Indian imagination."--BOOK JACKET.

Indian Identity

Author : Sudhir Kakar
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184750730
Total Pages : 703 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Indian Identity written by Sudhir Kakar and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-03-07 with total page 703 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Edition, He Explores The Nature Of Sexuality In India, Its Politics And Its Language Of Emotions. The Analyst And The Mystic Points Out The Similarities Between Psychoanalysis And Religious Healing, And The Colours Of Violence Is His Erudite Enquiry Into The Mixed Emotions Of Rage And Desire That Inflame Communalism.