Psychoanalytic and Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Women in India

Violence, Safety and Survival
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-18283-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 126 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 207 g

Reihe: Psychoanalysis and Women Series

This important book provides a bridge between psychoanalytic perspectives and socio-cultural issues to shine a spotlight on the experiences of women in India today.

Women’s well-being and security has often depended upon their gender positioning while other binaries like rural-urban, class, and caste have also played a crucial role globally and especially in India. Historically, women have been subjected to various forms of oppression that include sex selective abortions, domestic violence, bride burning for dowry, and acid attacks. Threats to women’s security have recently increased with progressive polarization and hardening of socio-political and cultural ideologies. This book assesses how women’s lives are impacted by these social and cultural conventions and stigma, including ideas around motherhood, religion, intimacy and femininity itself, and the psychological implications these have. Topics include the seduction of religion, motherhood in contemporary times, intimacy and violence, and fundamentalist states of mind in the clinical space. While the book echoes a regional specificity, it simultaneously resonates a backdrop of global change of affairs that has its impact on ideological freedom and the concept of inclusivity in terms of gender, race, culture, and politics across the world. For this comprehensive perspective, the effort is to create a platform of authors comprising psychoanalysts, social scientists, scholars from the liberal arts discipline, as well as social activists.

In a country where women have been historically subjected to both psychological and physical oppression, this timely and original book will interest a range of scholars interested in gender, mental health and contemporary Indian society, as well as clinicians in the field.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ellman, Paula L.

Ellman, Paula

Basak, Jhuma

Schlessinger-Kipp, Gertraud

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Paranoid-Schizoid Climate: When Fear and Anxiety Rules 2. "Marked Unsafe": Women, Violence and the State of Risk 3. Revisiting Motherhood: The Concepts of Psychoanalysis and that of Current Era 4. The Role of Religious Icons and Mythological Figures in Traumatized Individuals: A Psychoanalytic Perspective 5. Mourning 6. Peeping In Through The Keyhole 7. An analysis of the film DEVI by Satyajit Ray: The Colonization and Scotomization of a Mind 8. Sorrow, pain, loss, trauma…. Psychosocial and psychotherapeutic approach with female refugees 9. Pleasure, Politics & ‘Pagalpan’

Über Autor(innen)

Paula L. Ellman, Ph.D., ABPP. is a training and supervising analyst in the Contemporary Freudian Society, Washington DC, and the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. She is overall chair of the IPA Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis, chair of the IPA Intercommittee on Prejudices and Racism, is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and is a board member of the North America Psychoanalytic Confederation (NAPsaC).

Jhuma Basak, is a training analyst of the Indian Psychoanalytical Society. She is the representative of the 4th IPA region in the Committee on Women & Psychoanalysis, and member of the IPA Humanitarian Organization Committee.

Dr. Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipp is a psychologist, psychoanalyst and, since 1989, in a private practice in Kassel as a member of the German Psychoanalytical Association (DPV, IPA), full member of the IPA since 1998, training analyst and supervisor, member and consultant of COWAP since 2001, chair of migration and refugees subcommittee.