A Personal Perspective: The pioneering work of an Indian psychoanalyst.

Sometimes it takes almost a lifetime to fully appreciate a guru shishya relationship, or the teacher-student relationship. Such may have been my relationship with Professor Sudhir Kakar, India’s foremost psychoanalyst, who passed away recently, on April 22, 2024.

Due to the physical distance – his base was in India, and I was in the US – his image remained fixed in time, larger than life, scholar, writer, and teacher of, religion, and mysticism. With his thick flowing locks and gentle manner, he was always approachable, but never to be challenged. Salman Akhtar, a psychoanalyst in Philadelphia told me, “he was missing Sudhir Kakar in the city of brotherly love.” Was Kakar India’s Freud? It may be controversial to suggest Kakar was India’s Freud, Akhtar said. The honor of India’s Freud, “will go to Girindrashekar Bose who wrote a stunning psychoanalytic book in 1921 and maintained correspondence with Freud till a year and a half before the latter’s death in 1939,” according to Akhtar.

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