India(ns) on the Psychoanalytic Couch:
An Introduction to the Work of Sudhir Kakar
what Kakad refers to as the “Ganesha Complex”, his version of the Oedipus
Complex, in which the mother's image splits into two – the conscious,
unambivalently positive one and the unconscious, erotic and dangerous
ambivalent one.
Dr. Shah ended the lecture by talking about Alan Roland, who theorizes about
culture shaping the formation of different selves – the “I” self and the “We” self,
the latter being much bigger in Indians.
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