The Indian Jungle: Psychoanalysis and Non-Western Civilizations

by Sudhir Kakar

For more than a century, the cultural imagination of
psychoanalysis has been assumed and largely continues to be
assumed as Western. Fundamental ideas about human
relationships, family, marriage, and gender often remain
unexamined and pervade the analytic space as if they are
universally valid. In the intellectual climate of our times, with the
rise of relativism in the human sciences and politically with the
advent of decolonization,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1915565200
• ISBN13: 9781915565204
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Karnac Books
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 9.0"