The inner world : a psychoanalytic study of childhood and society in India / Sudhir Kakar.

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Kakar, Sudhir [author]

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TextLanguage: English Original language: English Publication details: New Delhi : Oxford, 2012.Edition: 4th edISBN:

9780198077152

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Personality and culture -- India

Summary: Key Features Author, India's best-known psychoanalyst. Book acclaimed as the best application of psychoanalysis to Indian culture. New Prologue situates the book in contemporary scenario. About the Book: The Inner World: A Psychoanalytic Study of Childhood and Society in India 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, 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 and, in doing so, reveals important aspects of Indian society, myths, rituals, fables, and arts.

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Key Features Author, India's best-known psychoanalyst. Book acclaimed as the best application of psychoanalysis to Indian culture. New Prologue situates the book in contemporary scenario. About the Book: The Inner World: A Psychoanalytic Study of Childhood and Society in India 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, 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 and, in doing so, reveals important aspects of Indian society, myths, rituals, fables, and arts.

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