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100			_aKakar, Sudhir
245		0	_aInner world: a psycho-analytic study of childhood and society in India
250			_a2nd (ed.)
260			_aDelhi
260			_bO.U.P.
260			_c1982
300			_a241p.
520			_aI ike to think of this book as a contribution to social psychology in general and the social psychology of Hindu society in particular. Readers will quickly discover that I view social psychology as a study of the psychic representation in individuals of their society's culture and social institutions. This conception diverges somewhat from the dominant academic tradition in the subject which is rela- tively a-cultural and a-historical and is more concerned with studying the reactions of individuals in the 'here-and-now' situations of social stimulus. This book first began to take shape in a seminar 'Childhood and Society in India', which I gave at the Sigmund-Freud Institute of Psycho-analytic Training and Research in Frankfurt in the summer of 1972. I am grateful to Professor Clemens De Boor and the Insti- tute's Training Committee for their encouragement. The work on this study was continued and completed with the help of a Senior Fellowship of the Indian Council of Social Science Research during 1975-76. I am extremely grateful to the Council and especially to its member-secretary Mr. J. P. Naik for the support which freed me from academic commitments and allowed me to work undisturbed on the manuscript for almost eighteen months. My colleagues at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, provided a hospitable environment during the period of this fellow- ship. Discussions with psycho-analytic colleagues, both in Germany and India, have considerably helped in giving final shape to this work. The detailed comments of Erik Erikson, respected teacher and dear friend, have been invaluable. Above all, I owe a special debt of grati- tude to Pamela Daniels. She helped to shape many of the ideas in this book. Without her personal involvement, critical acumen and sympathetic support this book could not have been written in its present form.
650			_aIndia
650			_aChild Psychology
650			_aPsychoanalysis and culture
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