Childhood, Family and Sociocultural Change in India
Reinterpreting the Inner World
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 5 June 2003
- ISBN 9780195664607
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages171 pages
- Size 215x140x16 mm
- Weight 408 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This is a unique and overdue book bringing important debates at the interface of psychoanalysis, developmental-personality psychology, anthropology, and socio-demographic change to a wider readership. The collection opens up absolutely critical questions that currently grip the social and human sciences. As an interdisciplinary book, it examines Indian childhood in depth and breadth for the first time. Contributors include both Indian and Western scholars from leading
universities.
Long description:
This book deals with the nature of sociocultural change in India and its relevance for the scientific study of childhood, family environments and the process of human development. The view developed in this book is an interdisciplinary one, with a focus on social, developmental and psychoanalytic theory.
On the one hand, the growing Indian middle class appears to be in the process of creating a new sense of Indianness, a sort of 'transitional identity', aspiring to be authentically Indian yet thoroughly modern; and on the other, there remains a search for the authentic Hindu self, best represented by the Hindutva movement and the BJP achieving political power. From a social and psychological perspective, these cultural and political movements hope to expunge the harsh pain of the colonial
legacy, while managing to fight off the stresses and strains of modernity. Both the inward looking and the outward directed components of the new Indian identity impact the domain of the family through parenting, schooling and media, represented in the daily routines of socialization.
The book addresses this challenge by working its way through psychoanalytic or developmental issues in order to arrive at a consensus between theory and observations on Indian childhood and personality development. Although this realm of experience remains relatively unexplored within the social discourse in India, the psychoanalytic works by Sudhir Kakar on the psychosocial tensions underlying Indian society offer a great landmark and a starting point. A unique and overdue study, this volume
brings important debates previously aired only in relation to rather restricted audiences to a wider readership.
Table of Contents:
Preface: A social science perspective on childhood experience in India
Infancy and childhood in India: A review
Cultural continuity and change in Kakar's works: Some reflections
Culture, family structure, and psyche in Hindu India: The 'fit' and the 'inconsistencies'
Kakar's psychoanalytic interpretation of Indian childhood: The need to emphasize the father and multiple caregivers in the socialization equation
In defense of The Inner World
Psychoanalysis and Sociocultural Change in India: A Conversation with Sudhir Kakar
