Religion and psychoanalysis in India : critical clinical practice / Sabah Siddiqui

Author:: Siddiqui, Sabah
Published:: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
Physical Description:: xii, 124 pages : illustration, map ; 22 cm.

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Concepts for critical psychology

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- State, science and superstition -- Wraths of power -- 2.On method -- Science -- Cultural anthropology -- Freudian psychoanalysis and its cultural variants -- Post-colonial studies -- 3.Ghosts from the past -- Return of the deceased as symptom of the diseased -- Hiroshima and the psychoanalysis of forgetting -- The trauma in remembering vs the horror of forgetting -- 4.Woman or goddess? -- God does not go to everyone -- Home and the world -- Technologies of the self -- 5.Prayers, pills and politics -- Situating the dargah -- Esoterica -- A fragment of a case of jinn possession -- 6.In lieu of a conclusion.

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9781138942585 (hbk)
1138942588 (hbk)
9781138942592 (pbk)
1138942596 (pbk)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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