Psychoanalysis from the Indian Terroir

Emerging Themes in Culture, Family, and Childhood

Foreword by Erica Burman Contributions by Manasi Kumar, Anup Dhar, Anurag Mishra, Amrita Narayanan, Sabah Siddiqui, Bhargavi Davar, Urvashi Agarwal, Nilofer Kaul, Shalini Masih, Zehra Mehdi, Atreyee Sen, Ajeet Mathur, Sudhir Kakar, Alfred Margulies, Shifa Haq Edited by Manasi Kumar, Anup Dhar, Anurag Mishra

Publication date:

19 February 2018

Length of book:

248 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9781498559416

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.

Introduction to Psychoanalysis in the Indian Terroir by Manasi Kumar, Anup Dhar and Anurag Mishra
Part I: Mothers, Therapists, and Matricide
Chapter 1: When the Enthralled Mother Dreams: A Clinical and Cultural Composition by Amrita Narayanan
Chapter 2: Devi Possession at the Intersections of Religion, Culture and Psychoanalysis by Sabah Siddiqui and Bhargavi Davar
Chapter 3: Of Mothers and Therapists: Dreaming the Indian Infant by Urvashi Agarwal
Chapter 4: Myth, Misogyny and Matricide by Nilofer Kaul
Chapter 5: Sita Through the Time Warp: On the Ticklish Relationship Between Renunciation and Moral Narcissism in the Lives of Young Indian Women by Shifa Haq
Part II: Faith, Religion and Violence
Chapter 6: Terrors to Expansions: A Journey Mediated Through Faith by Shalini Masih
Chapter 7: Only Hindu also the Patient, Only Muslim also the Therapist: Recovering the ‘Historical Other’ by Zehra Mehdi
Chapter 8: Disaster Diaries: Riots Affected Children in Ahmedabad and Hyderabad by Atreyee Sen and Manasi Kumar
Part III: Cultural Identity and Indian Imagination
Chapter 9: Two Cultures? : Frontiers of Faith in Yoga and Psychoanalysis by Ajeet Mathur
Chapter 10: Psychoanalysis, Culture and the Cultural Unconscious by Sudhir Kakar
Chapter 11: Imagining The Real: An Essay on Sudhir Kakar’s “Culture and Psyche”: A Personal Journey by Alfred Margulies
Chapter 12: As Psychoanalysis Travels: Mansi Kumar, Anup Dhar, Anurag Mishra in conversation with Sudhir Kakar by Manasi Kumar, Anup Dhar, Anurag Mishra, and Sudhir Kakar
Chapter 13 Genealogies of Aboriginalization by Anup Dhar

This homage for Sudhir Kakar is a must read for all those who are interested in the current state of cultural and clinical applications of psychoanalysis in India.