Mad and divine : spirit and psyche in the modern world / Sudhir Kakar
- Bib ID:
- 4653716
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Kakar, Sudhir
- Description:
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- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2009
- 178 p. ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780226422879
- 0226422879
- Summary:
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"Mad and Divine looks at the interplay between spirit and psyche and the moments of creativity and transformation that occur when the spirit overcomes desire and narcissism. Sudhir Kakar examines this relationship in religious rituals and healing traditions - both Eastern and Western - as well as in the lives of some extraordinary men: the mystic and guru Rajneesh, Gandhi, and the Buddhist saint Drukpa Kunley."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Childhood of a spiritually incorrect guru: Osho
- Seduction and the saint: the legend of Drukpa Kunley
- Desire and the spiritual quest: the legend of Drukpa Kunley (contd.)
- Gandhi and the art of practical spirituality
- Empathy in psychoanalysis and spiritual healing
- The uses of ritual
- Religion and psyche: reading Freud's "The future of an illusion" in Goa
- Afterword: spirit and psyche.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2009
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