Psychoanalytic and Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Women in India: Violence, Safety and Survival
In: Psychoanalysis and Women Ser.
Intro -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A prejudiced time and its women in India -- References -- Part I: Introduction to Women's safety in dogmatic times: COWAP Kolkata -- 1. The paranoid-schizoid climate: When fear and anxiety rules -- On dogma and dogmatic -- The paranoid-schizoid position -- The depressive position -- Containment -- Reverie -- Group and organisational dynamics -- Violence, and women as a threat to men -- Living in a paranoid-schizoid climate -- Gender roles and power -- References -- 2. "Marked unsafe": Women, violence, and the state of risk -- No more Kushmandi? -- Whose safety? -- Bodily rights -- Weaponising rape, imagining the 'birangona' -- Women's safety in 'dogmatic times' -- A state of risk -- The pain of others -- Figuring resistance -- References -- Part II: Revisiting motherhood in contemporary times introduction and commentary -- 3. Revisiting motherhood: The concepts of psychoanalysis and that of the current era -- Maternal representations in pregnancy -- Stern's motherhood constellation -- The woman in relation to her motherhood -- Motherhood having its archetypal origin -- Notion of 'mothering' along different theoretical dimensions of object-relations -- Chodorow's cultural perspective of mothering -- Motherhood in the current century -- Conclusive comments -- References -- Part III: Introduction to the Seduction of Religion -- 4. The role of religious icons and mythological figures in traumatised individuals: A psychoanalytic perspective -- Man, mythology, and religion -- Psychoanalysis and mythology -- Psychoanalysis and religion -- The unconscious life -- Myths in a cultural context -- Briefly on trauma -- Case of Kamala -- Discussion -- References -- 5. Mourning over Karbala: Rethinking ritual actions of Shia women in Kolkata.