Sudhir Kakar is an Indian psychoanalyst, novelist and author in the fields of cultural psychology and the psychology of religion.

A leading figure in the fields of cultural psychology and the psychology of religion, as well as a novelist, Dr. Kakar’s person and work have been profiled in The New York Times, Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Neue Zuricher Zeitung, Die Zeit and Le Nouvel Observateur, which listed him as one of the world's 25 major thinkers while the German weekly Die Zeit portrayed Sudhir Kakar as one of the 21 important thinkers for the 21st century. Dr. Kakar's many honors include the Kardiner Award of Columbia University, Boyer Prize for Psychological Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association, Germany ’s Goethe Medal, Rockefeller Residency, McArthur Fellowship Bhabha, Nehru and ICSSR National Fellowship, Merck-Tagore Award, and Distinguished Service Award of Indo-American Psychiatric Association. He is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the Board of Sigmund Freud Archives in the Library of Congress, Washington and the Academie Universelle des Culture, France. In February 2012, he was conferred the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the country's highest civilian order.

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0:00 Intro

6:03 How is Indian Psychoanalysis different from Freudian Psychoanalysis?

16:23 What is our "Cultural Unconscious" made of?

19:18 Can the cultural unconscious be passed on within different communities?

22:48 Psychoanalysis and Why is it no longer glamourised?

29:00 "Making the unconscious conscious"

34:26 When does bollywood become part of the Indian psyche?

45:19 Sudhir's end goal with psychoanalysis

47:41 Understanding Vipassana through the psychoanalytical framework

53:39 The similarities between Indian and Western Psychoanalytical Frameworks

55:49 How do cultural connotations impact our unconscious?