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100			_aNandy,Ashis
245		4	_aThe Savage Freud and Other Essays on Possible and Retrievable Selves _c/ Ashis Nandy
250			_a1st Edition
260			_aNew Delhi _b: Oxford University Press _c,1995
300			_a288 p. _c; 21 cm.
520			_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.
650			_aPsychology
650			_aCultural Studies
650			_aIndia Civilization.
650			_aIndia Politics and government 20th century.
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