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by Stanley Kurtz


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Based on the author's ethnographic research in India, the book explores the psychology of Hinduism, and offers an innovative synthesis of psychoanylsis with modern anthropological theories of cultural difference. Stanley N. Kurtz offers a new interpretation of the multiple "mother goddesses" of Hinduism, and explores how this multiplicity is key to understanding early childhood experience in which a child is raised by many "mothers" in the Hindu joint family. Arguing that traditional psychoanalytic approaches to Indian culture have applied Western models without regard to differing cultural circumstances, Kurtz suggests that immersion in a joint family plays a central role in the development of feelings and needs which are carried over into adult life. The book concludes with a briefr comparison of mothering in India and contemporary America. All the Mothers Are One makes a significant contribution to the growing debate concerning the role of psychoanalysis in the interpretation of culture and the study of cross-cultural human development.

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Hindu India and the Cultural Reshaping of Psychoanalysis: Stanley Kurtz's book is an imaginative, bold, tight argued attempt that qualifies as an innovative implementation of that program. He demonstrates that current psychoanalytic work on Hindu (and South Asian societies is still hobbled by a commitment to an underlying account of socializations beholden to the dominance of concepts of individualism.

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  • Title All the Mothers Are One: Hindu India and the Cultural Reshaping of Psychoanalysis
  • Author Stanley Kurtz
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 306
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press, New York
  • Date 1992-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780231078696 / 0231078692
  • Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 5.86 x 0.76 in (22.81 x 14.88 x 1.93 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Goddesses, Hindu, Psychoanalysis and culture - India
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92008190
  • Dewey Decimal Code 150.195

About the author

Stanley N. Kurtz recently received his Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard University and is currently a Fellow of the Committee on Human Development and the Center for Research on Culture and Mental Health at the University of Chicago.
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