01647nam a2200193Ia 450000500170000000800410001702000180005808200220007610000160009824500880011425000160020226000480021830000220026652010540028865000150134265000210135765000250137865000500140320261006120729.0260608s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und||  a9780195635546  223a305.80092 NAN  aNandy,Ashis 4aThe Savage Freud and Other Essays on Possible and Retrievable Selvesc/ Ashis Nandy  a1st Edition  aNew Delhib: Oxford University Pressc,1995  a288 p. c; 21 cm.  aOne of India's leading public intellectuals, Ashis Nandy is a highly influential critic of modernity, science, nationalism, and secularism. In this, his most important collection of essays so far, he seeks to locate cultural forms and languages of being and thinking that defy the logic and hegemony of the modern West. The core of the volume consists of two ambitious, deeply probing essays, one on the early success of psychoanalysis in India, the other on the justice meted out by the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal to the defeated Japanese. Both issues are viewed in the context of the psychology of dominance over a subservient or defeated culture.


This theme is explored further in essays on mass culture and the media, political terrorism, the hold of modern medicine, and, notably, the conflict or split between the creative work of writers like Kipling, Rushdie, and H. G. Wells, and the political and social values they publicly and rationally present. Also included is a controversial essay by Nandy on the issue of sati, or widow's suicide.  aPsychology  aCultural Studies  aIndia  Civilization.  aIndia  Politics and government  20th century.