Psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar’s writings to be discussed at ICG

Goa Khabar: “The Mind in the World”, a set of four volumes of selected writings by  Goa based, internationally acclaimed psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar will be discussed at the International Centre Goa (ICG) on Saturday, April 20 at 530pm. This event is part of ICG’s “Kitab” series of lectures and discussions and is free and open to the public.

Kakar will be in discussion with senior academic and author Harish Trivedi and psychoanalyst Amrita Narayanan.

Kakar’s many important career assignments include being lecturer at Harvard University, professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, head of department of humanities and social sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. In 2005, the French weekly, “ Le Nouvel Observateur” listed Kakar as one of the world’s 25 major thinkers.

Among the discussants, psychoanalyst Amrita Narayanan has a doctorate in psychology from the Stanford University, USA and is the author of the book, “In a Rapture of Distress: Women’s Sexuality and Modern India” (2023).

The second discussant, author and academic Harish Trivedi is a former professor of English at the University of Delhi and visiting professor at the universities of Chicago and London. His publications include Colonial Transactions: English Literature and India (1995) and Post-colonial Translation: Theory and Practice (1999) among others. Trivedi has written about and translated various Hindi, Urdu and Sanskrit writers, including Ashvaghosha, Premchand, Manto, and Ajneya.