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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kakar, Sudhir.

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Series:

Oxford India paperbacks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personality and culture--India.

Personality and culture.

Child psychology--India.

Child psychology.

Child rearing--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Child rearing.

Psychoanalysis and culture--India.

Psychoanalysis and culture.

Hinduism--Psychology.

Hinduism.

Hinduism and culture--India.

Hinduism and culture.

India.

Physical Description:

viii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Summary:

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. Hailed by critics from all over the world as the best application of psychoanalysis to Indian culture, the third edition of The Inner World includes a new Afterword by the author, and will equally appeal to scholars of social psychology, cultural studies, and sociology, as well as general readers interested in psychology.

Notes:

Previous ed.: 1981.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-239) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

9780195696677

0195696670

OCLC:

229463766