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Sudhir Kakar was born on 25 July, 1938 in India, is an Indian psychologist and writer. Discover Sudhir Kakar's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

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Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 25 July, 1938
Birthday 25 July
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Nationality India

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1925

The French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur profiled Kakar as one of 25 major thinkers of the world while the German weekly Die Zeit profiled him as one of twenty one thinkers for the 21st century Oxford University Press, Delhi is in the process of publishing 4 volumes of Kakar’s essays in their series Great Thinkers of Modern Asia.

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1938

Sudhir Kakar (born 25 July 1938) is an Indian psychoanalyst, novelist and author in the fields of cultural psychology and the psychology of religion.

Kakar spent his early childhood near Sargodha, now in Pakistan and also in Rohtak, where his father was an additional district magistrate during the British Raj and during the partition of India, and the family moved quite a bit from city to city.

At age eight he was enrolled as a boarder in Modern School, New Delhi; he would later write about homosexual encounters in the school dormitories.

He next attended St. Edward's School, Shimla.

1940

The story is set in Rajasthan of 1940s or 1960s

1953

He began his Intermediate Studies at Maharaja's College, Jaipur, in 1953 after which his family sent him to Ahmedabad, where Kakar lived with his aunt Kamla Chowdhry, and attended engineering college.

1958

After his B.E. degree in mechanical engineering from Gujarat University 1958, Kakar obtained a master's equivalent in business administration (Dipl.-Kfm.) at the University of Mannheim (1960–64), and a doctor's degree in economics at the University of Vienna.

1967

Kakar now resides in Goa and is married to Katharina (born 1967), a German writer and a scholar of comparative religions.

Kakar has two children, Rahul and Shveta, from his Indian ex-wife.

1971

He began his training in psychoanalysis at the University of Frankfurt's Sigmund Freud Institute in 1971.

1975

In 1975, Sudhir Kakar moved to Delhi with his aunt, Kamla.

After returning to India in 1975, Sudhir Kakar set up a practice as a psychoanalyst in Delhi.

1976

There, for a short period of time, he was the Head of Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology (1976-77).

1978

His analyses of personages include that of Swami Vivekananda in The Inner World (1978), Mohandas Gandhi in Intimate Relations (1989), and Ramakrishna in The Analyst and the Mystic (1991).

1987

Kakar's was awarded the 1987 Boyer Prize for Psychological Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association.

1993

MacArthur Research Fellowship, 1993–94, Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow, 1986–88, Homi Bhabha Fellow, 1979-80.Karolyi Foundation Award for Young Writers, 1963.

1999

April–May 1999, Goethe Medal of Goethe Institut, Germany, 1998, Watumull Distinguished Scholar, University of Hawaii, Spring Semester, 1998, National Fellow in Psychology, Indian Council of Social Science Research, 1992–94,

2001

He has been 40th Anniversary Senior Fellow at the Centre for Study of World Religions at Harvard (2001–02), a visiting professor at the universities of Chicago (1989–93), McGill (1976–77), Melbourne (1981), Hawaii (1998) and Vienna (1974–75), INSEAD, France (1994-2013).

He has been a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute of Advanced Study), Berlin, Centre for Advanced Study of Humanities, University of Cologne.

2003

Kakar was in private psychoanalytic practice in New Delhi for 25 years before moving in 2003 to his current place of residence in Goa, India.

Since then he has his practice in Benaulim, a village in Goa.

He is currently a Visiting Professor at Goa University.

Kakar’s novel Ecstasy (2003) was "written exclusively for the senses of the skeptic and the mind of the mystic" and "is the beginning of a journey through the soulscape of spiritual India".

Member, Academie Universelle des Cultures, France, 2003, Abraham Kardiner Award, Columbia University, 2002, Rockefeller Residency, Bellagio.

2007

Distinguished Service Award, Indo-American Psychiatric Association, 2007, Fellow, National Academy of Psychology, India, 2007,

2009

Psychoanalyst Alan Roland (2009) writes that when Kakar applies his psychoanalytic understanding to these "three spiritual figures [Swami Vivekananda, Gandhi, Ramakrishna]", his analyses are as "fully reductionistic as those of Jeffrey Masson".

Roland also disputes the Kakar's theoretical understanding of mysticism from a psychoanalytic standpoint, and writes that it is "highly questionable whether spiritual aspirations, practices, and experiences essentially involve regression."

At a personal level, Kakar feels that spirituality for him consists of moments of profound connection with a person, nature, art, music, and for those who believe in God, with the Divine.

His spiritual beliefs have been influenced by a combination of a rationalistic, agonistic father and a religious, ritualistic mother.

His some general observations on Indian psychology and attitudes are mentioned in V. S. Naipaul's India - A Wounded Civilization.

2012

He received the Order of Merit, Federal republic of Germany, Feb. 2012,

2018

He created controversy in a symposium regarding the Death Penalty for Child Rape in 2018 by advocating leniency towards perpetrators of child rape, emphasizing protection of the family reputation and the family bond over the child's safety.

A portion of Sudhir Kakar's work involves the relationship between psychoanalysis and mysticism.