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We received an overwhelming response on the Conversation we held with Prof. Sudhir Kakar. We realised that in that enriching exchange he shared with us many interesting ideas. Due to paucity of time we could not dwell deeper into them. The conversation left us buzzing with curiosities. We were delighted to be joined, in our curiosities, by the responses from our attendees.
Therefore, we were delighted to once again hold space for a Conversation with Sudhir Kakar: Mind in the World Part II
Sudhir Kakar is a leading figure in the fields of cultural psychology, psychology of religion, Psychoanalysis, as well as a novelist. The New York Times, Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Neue Zuricher Zeitung, Die Zeit and Le Nouvel Observateur, have listed him as one of the world’s 25 major thinkers while the German weekly Die Zeit portrayed Sudhir Kakar as one of the 21 important thinkers for the 21st century. Dr. Kakar’s many honors include the Kardiner Award of Columbia University, Boyer Prize for Psychological Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association, Germany ’s Goethe Medal, Rockefeller Residency, McArthur Fellowship Bhabha, Merck-Tagore Award, Nehru and ICSSR National Fellowships and Distinguished Service Award of Indo-American Psychiatric Association. He is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the Board of Sigmund Freud Archives in the Library of Congress, Washington and the Academie Universelle des Culture, France. In February 2012, he was conferred the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the country’s highest civilian order.
Sudhir Kakar’s vast body of works include twenty plus books of non-fiction and fiction, including The Inner World (now in its 16th printing since its first publication in 1978), Shamans, Mystics and Doctors , (with J.M. Ross ) Tales of Love, Sex and Danger,Intimate Relations, The Analyst and the Mystic, The Colors of Violence,Culture and Psyche, (with K.Kakar) The Indians: Portrait of a People, (with Wendy Doniger), a new translation of the Kamasutra for Oxford world Classics, Mad and Divine: Spirit and Psyche in the Modern world and Young Tagore: The makings of a genius.
We are truly honoured that Prof. Kakar has shared a desire to share some more insights with us.
We are also delighted that this time the conversation was facilitated by Prof. Ashok Nagpal.
Prof. Ashok Nagpal is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. He is actively associated with initiating teaching and research in psychoanalysis in University of Delhi and Ambedkar University.
Shades of Becoming 