 | Charles William Nuckolls - 1996 - 356 pages
...unproblematic, since the means available for its fulfillment are contradictory. Kakar (1981 :34) notes that "the essential psychological theme of Hindu culture...'Other,' where the 'Other' is all which is not the self." But that is only part of the problem, since the means for achieving fusion conflict not only internally... | |
 | Isabelle Nabokov Assistant Professor of Anthropology Princeton University - 2000 - 250 pages
...contend with what Sudhir Kakar identifies as "the essential psychological theme of Hindu culture" namely, "the polarity of fusion and separation ... a dynamic...merge into and to be differentiated from the 'Other.' "(1981: 34, in Mines 1994: 17). In day-to-day life and death, I suspect, Tamil people haphazardly swing... | |
 | Isabelle Nabokov - 2000 - 245 pages
...contend with what Sudhir Kakar identifies as "the essential psychological theme of Hindu culture" namely, "the polarity of fusion and separation ... a dynamic...needs, to merge into and to be differentiated from the 'Other.'"(1981: 34, in Mines 1994: 17). In day-to-day life and death, I suspect, Tamil people haphazardly... | |
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the essential psychological theme of Hindu culture" namely, "the polarity of fusion and separation ... a dynamic counterpoint between two opposite needs, to merge into and to be differentiated from the 'Other. 