A Book Of Memory : Confessions And Reflections (Hardcover) by Sudhir Kakar

Sudhir Kakar, India's most celebrated psychoanalyst, an inspired observer of the Indian psyche and a distinguished novelist, was born in 1938 in Nainital. He spent his childhood in the many provincial towns of undivided Punjab, where his father was a magistrate in the colonial government. In a personal memoir that is woven into the loop of larger lifehistoriesﾗ of a nation and a peopleﾗKakar paints a sensuously detailed portrait of an Indian childhood while reflecting on the complexities of family life.

Abandoning a successful career at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Kakar trained as a psychoanalyst at the Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt, and set up a clinic in Delhi in 1975. His simultaneous engagement in research, writing and clinical practice led him to embark on a lifelong search for the wellsprings of Indian identity and to establish the new discipline of cultural psychology.

In keeping with Kakar's belief in the primacy of desire, this memoir grapples with not only crises of identity and intellect, but also the ecstasies and vicissitudes of erotic pleasure and love. A Book of Memory is fearless and revelatory with regard to the self and its motivations, a rare candour illuminating the urbane prose.

 

About the Author
Sudhir Kakar is an acclaimed psychoanalyst and writer. He has taught at the universities of Chicago, Harvard, Hawaii, McGill, Melbourne, Princeton and Vienna, and is currently Adjunct Professor of Leadership at INSEAD in Fontainbleau, France. Le Nouvel Observateur has listed him as one of twenty-five major thinkers of the world. He lives in Goa and has published seventeen books of non-fiction and four books of fiction that include Shamans, Mystics and Doctors, The Colours of Violence, Intimate Relations, The Indians, The Ascetic of Desire, Mira and the Mahatma, and The Crimson Throne.

Details of Book: A Book Of Memory : Confessions And Reflections

Book: A Book Of Memory : Confessions And Reflections
Author: Sudhir Kakar
ISBN: 0670084115
ISBN-13: 9780670084111, 978-0670084111
Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Date: 2011
Publisher: Viking
Number of Pages: 328pp with 8pp col and 8pp b/w

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