by Sudhir Kakar
3 S. Freud, ‘Civilized Sexual Morality and Modern Nervousness’, Standard Edition of the Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Vol. 9 (London: Hogarth Press, 1952–58), 197.
4 Of course, it is not my intention to deny or underestimate the importance of the powerful mother in Western psychoanalysis. All I seek to suggest is that certain forms of maternal-feminine are much more central in Indian myths and psyche than in their Western counterparts.
In Academia and the World
1 M. Foucault, ‘Preface’, in G. Deleuze and F. Guattari, Anti-Oedipus (London: Continuum, 2004), xv.
2 G. Obeyesekere, The Work of Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), 218.
3 P.V. Pillai, Where Nothing Happens (Kolkata: Seagull Press), 2009.
4 ‘Gandhi Resigns. Opposition Government Seen in India’, Los Angeles Times, 22 November 1989.
5 ‘The Fall of Gandhi’, New York Times, 30 November 1989.
6 Ibid.
7 F.W. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (NP: New Vision, 2007), 12.
8 Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, trans. G. Long (Stillwell, KS: Digireads.com, 2005), 10.
Two Loves
1 Ibn Hazm, The Ring of the Dove, trans. A.J. Arberry (London: Luzac, 1953), 118.
2 S. Kakar, The Ascetic of Desire (New Delhi: Viking, 1998), 48.
3 From the poem ‘The Truest Poetry is the most Feigning’.
4 From Sanskrit Love Poetry, trans. W.S. Merwin and J.M. Masson (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977).
5 S. Kakar and J. Ross, Tales of Love, Sex and Danger (New York: Blackwell, 1986), 96.
6 From Sanskrit Poetry: From Vidyakara’s Treasury, trans. Daniel H.H. Ingalls (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1965), 166.
7 S.A. Mitchell, ‘You’ve Got to Suffer if You Want to Sing the Blues’, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 10:5 (2000), 713–55.
Retreat to the Forest
1 S. Kakar, The Ascetic of Desire (New Delhi: Viking, 1998), 290–91.
An Ending
1 W.B. Yeats, ‘Per Amica Silentia Lunae’, www.HorrorMasters.com, accessed on 19 October 2010.
2 Ibid.
Acknowledgements
I am grateful to Ravi Singh of Penguin for his encouragement and comments on the first draft of this memoir. The inputs of my new editor at Penguin, R. Sivapriya, in giving the memoir its final shape, were invaluable. I look forward to our future collaboration on other books. All other persons who played a part in the making of this book (and the story of my life) have already been met in its pages. A special thanks to my wife Katha who spurred me to surmount the occasional doubt and bouts of faintheartedness that are perhaps inevitable in the writing of a memoir.
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