Sudhir Kakar

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Sudhir Kakar (born July 25, 1938 in Nainital , Uttarakhand ) is an Indian psychoanalyst , scholar and writer .

life and work

Sudhir Kakar was born the son of a civil servant and, after an initial internship, later worked as an engineer at the Howaldtswerke shipyard in Hamburg . He studied in Mannheim Economics and then returned temporarily to India, where he happened to Erik Erikson met, who just wrote his book on Gandhi. He was the reason for the conversion to psychoanalysis. Like Kakar, he had never studied psychology and brought him to Harvard as his assistant. From 1971 Kakar was trained as a psychoanalyst at the Sigmund Freud Institute in Frankfurt am Main . According to his own statements, he earned his training analysis at Alexander Mitscherlich's Freud Institute in Frankfurt through market research for Henkel. He practiced in New Delhi , taught at Harvard , Princeton , Chicago and Paris and now lives in Goa . His books Childhood and Society in India, The Violence of the Pious, The Mystic and the Art of Ecstasy, Culture and Psyche and others made him known worldwide.

The French newspaper Le Nouvel Observateur recognized him in 2005 as one of the "25 master thinkers in the world".

Publications

  • The inner world. A psycho-analytic study of childhood and society in India. Oxford University Press, Delhi 1978.
    • Childhood and Society in India. A psychoanalytic study. Nexus, Frankfurt am Main 1988.
  • Shamans, mystics and doctors. A psychological inquiry into India and its healing traditions. Knopf, New York 1982.
    • Shamans, saints and doctors. Psychotherapy and traditional Indian healing arts. Translated by Holger Fliessbach. Biederstein, Munich 1984.
  • with John M. Ross: Tales of love, sex and danger. Oxford University Press, Delhi 1986.
    • About love and the depths of feeling. Translated by Udo Rennert. Beck, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-406-31569-0 .
  • The colors of violence. Cultural identities, religion and conflict. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1996.
    • The violence of the pious. On the psychology of religious and ethnic conflicts. Translated by Barbara Hörmann. Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-41783-3 .
  • Culture and psyche. Selected essays. Oxford University Press, Delhi 1997.
    • Culture and psyche. Psychoanalysis in dialogue with non-western societies. Translated by Katharina Kakar. Psychosocial, Giessen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8379-2098-7 .
  • ed. with Wendy Doniger : Kamasutra . Annotated new translation from Sanskrit. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2002.
  • Mira and the Mahatma. Penguin, New Delhi 2004.
  • with Katharina Kakar: The Indians. Portrait of a Society. Beck, Munich 2006.
  • Reading Freud in Goa: Spirituality in an Enlightened World. Translated by Katharina Kakar. Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57072-8 .
  • A book of memory. Confessions and reflections. Penguin, New Delhi 2011.
    • The soul of others. My life between India and the West. Translated by Klaus Modick. Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-64125-1 .
  • Young Tagore. The making of a genius. Penguin Books India, Gurgao 2014.
    • Young Tagore. How a genius develops. Translated by Barbara DasGupta. Draupadi, Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-945191-24-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elisabeth von Thadden : The hedgehogs of the world (interview). In: The time . April 6, 2005.
personal data
SURNAME Kakar, Sudhir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Nainital , Uttarakhand