The Inner World: A Psychoanalytic Study of Hindu Childhood and Society

by Sudhir Kakar

Book Overview

This wide-ranging and well-researched study explores the developmental significance of Hindu infancy and childhood and its influence on identity formation. Drawing on a wide range of anthropological evidence, clinical data, mythology, and folklore, Kakar elucidates Hindu family life and collective fantasy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195615085
• ISBN13: 9780195615081
• Release Date: July 1983
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.4" x 5.4"

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This is a remarkable attempt to build the foundations of Indian/Hindu psychiatry. It will touch a chord with anyone who has grown up in India, and is instructive for people seeking to understand how psychiatry and psychoanalysis translate to non-Western cultures.