Book of Memory,A: Confessions and Reflections - Softcover

Sudhir Kakar

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9780143431015: Book of Memory,A: Confessions and Reflections

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ISBN 10: 0143431013 ISBN 13: 9780143431015

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE INDIA PVT.LTD., 2014

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An inspired observer of the Indian psyche, Sudhir Kakar trained as a psychoanalyst at the Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt. He set up a clinic in Delhi in 1975, thus embarking on a lifelong search for the wellsprings of Indian identity. He went on to establish the new discipline of cultural psychology. A Book of Memory records not only the crises of identity and intellect but also the highs and lows of love and pleasure. It is fearless and revelatory with regard to the self and its motivations, a rare candour illuminating the urbane prose.

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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.

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That rare autobiography without a touch of conceit --Outlook

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