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‘Psychoanalytic and Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Women in India: Violence, Safety and Survival offers both a distinctly psychoanalytic view of the trauma and resilience of women in India and an interdisciplinary consideration of their religious, familial, societal situation historically and currently. Horrifying abuse of Indian women is juxtaposed with clinical and social documentation of women’s fierce public insistence on equality and justice. This presentation of the impacts of fundamentalism, patriarchy, and severe socio-cultural endan- germent constitutes an inspiring and scholarly contribution to clinicians’ and social scientists’ work with underprivileged women world-wide.’ - Harriet Wolfe, M.D. is President-elect of the International Psychoanalytical Association and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California San Francisco ‘Psychoanalytic and Socio-cultural Perspectives on Women in India, another remarkable book produced by COWAP, one of the most relevant IPA committees, shows how psychoanalysis is able to shed light on a complex reality, both psychological and social, hand in hand with other disciplines. The life of women in India, so well depicted in this excellent book, both in their inner lives and in the culture they live in, is a remarkable contribution to our growing awareness of the feminine, its glories and difficulties, and once again illustrates the development of psychoanalytic understanding of human mind and body in different cultures. I strongly recommend this book and congratulate its authors.’ - Cláudio Laks Eizirik, IPA Past President, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Sigourney Award, 2011 Psychoanalytic and Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Women in India This important book provides a bridge between psychoanalytic perspectives and socio-cultural issues to shine a spotlight on the experiences of women in India today. Women’s well-being and security has often depended upon their gender positioning while other binaries like rural-urban, class, and caste have also played a crucial role globally and especially in India. Historically, women have been subjected to various forms of oppression that include sex selective abortions, domestic violence, bride burning for dowry, and acid attacks. Threats to women’s security have recently increased with progressive polarization and hardening of socio-political and cultural ideologies. This book assesses how women’s lives are impacted by these social and cultural conventions and stigmas, including ideas around motherhood, religion, intimacy, and femininity itself, and the psychological implications these have. Topics include the seduction of religion, motherhood in contemporary times, intimacy and violence, and fundamentalist states of mind in the clinical space. While the book echoes a regional specificity, it simultaneously resonates a backdrop of global change of affairs that has its impact on ideological freedom and the concept of inclusivity in terms of gender, race, culture, and politics across the world. For this comprehensive perspective, the effort is to create a platform of authors comprising psychoanalysts, social scientists, scholars from the liberal arts discipline, as well as social activists. In a country where women have been historically subjected to both psychological and physical oppression, this timely and original book will interest a range of scholars interested in gender, mental health, and contemporary Indian society, as well as clinicians in the field. Paula L. Ellman, Ph.D., ABPP, is a training and supervising analyst in the Contemporary Freudian Society, Washington, DC, and the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. She is the overall chair of the IPA Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis, chair of the IPA Intercommittee on Prejudices and Racism, is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and is a board member of the North America Psychoanalytic Confederation (NAPsaC). Jhuma Basak is a training analyst of the Indian Psychoanalytical Society. She is the representative of the 4th IPA region in the Committee on Women & Psychoanalysis, and member of the IPA Humanitarian Organization Committee. Dr. Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipp is a psychologist and psychoanalyst and, since 1989, has owned a private practice in Kassel. A member of the German Psychoanalytical Association (DPV, IPA) and a full member of the IPA. Schlesinger-Kipp has been a training analyst and supervisor since 1998, a member and consultant of COWAP since 2002, and is chair of migration and refugees subcommittee. 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Goodman When a Child is Abused: Towards Psychoanalytic Understanding and Therapy Edited by Frances Thompson-Salo and Laura Tognoli Pasquali For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/ Psychoanalysis-and-Women-Series/book-series/KARNACPWS Psychoanalytic and Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Women in India Violence, Safety and Survival Edited by Paula L. Ellman, Jhuma Basak, and Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipp First published 2022 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2022 selection and editorial matter, Paula L. Ellman, Jhuma Basak, and Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipp; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Paula L. Ellman, Jhuma Basak, and Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipp to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Ellman, Paula Lisette, editor. | Basak, Jhuma, editor. | Schlesinger-Kipp, Gertraud, 1952- editor. Title: Psychoanalytic and socio-cultural perspectives on women in India : violence, safety and survival / edited by Paula L. Ellman, Jhuma Basak, Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipp. Description: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge, 2021. | Series: Psychoanalysis and women series | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2021002083 (print) | LCCN 2021002084 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367182823 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367182830 (paperback) | ISBN 9780429060502 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Women‐‐India‐‐Social conditions. | Women‐‐India‐‐Psychology. Classification: LCC HQ1742 .P795 2021 (print) | LCC HQ1742 (ebook) | DDC 305.40954‐‐dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021002083 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021002084 ISBN: 978-0-367-18282-3 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-367-18283-0 (pbk) ISBN: 978-0-429-06050-2 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo by MPS Limited, Dehradun Contents Acknowledgements ix Introduction: A prejudiced time and its women in India 1 JHUMA BASAK PART I Introduction to Women’s safety in dogmatic times: COWAP Kolkata 7 GERTRAUD SCHLESINGER-KIPP 1 The paranoid-schizoid climate: When fear and anxiety rules 9 ALEXANDRA BILLINGHURST 2 “Marked unsafe”: Women, violence, and the state of risk 20 SUPRIYA CHAUDHURI PART II Revisiting motherhood in contemporary times introduction and commentary 33 PAULA L. ELLMAN 3 Revisiting motherhood: The concepts of psychoanalysis and that of the current era 35 NILANJANA SANYAL viii Contents PART III Introduction to the Seduction of Religion 47 JHUMA BASAK 4 The role of religious icons and mythological figures in traumatised individuals: A psychoanalytic perspective 49 MONISHA C. NAYAR-AHKTAR 5 Mourning over Karbala: Rethinking ritual actions of Shia women in Kolkata 60 EPSITA HALDER PART IV Introduction to fundamentalist states of mind in the clinical space 73 PAULA L. ELLMAN 6 Peeping in through the keyhole 75 MALLIKA AKBAR 7 An analysis of the film DEVI by Satyajit Ray: The colonisation and scotomisation of a mind 84 MINNIE K. DASTUR PART V Introduction for intimacy and violence 93 GERTRAUD SCHLESINGER-KIPP 8 Sorrow, pain, loss, trauma … Psychosocial and psychotherapeutic approaches with female refugees 95 GERTRAUD SCHLESINGER-KIPP 9 Pleasure, politics, and ‘pagalpan’ 106 RATNABOLI RAY Conclusion 108 JHUMA BASAK, PAULA L. ELLMAN, AND GERTRAUD SCHLESINGER-KIPP Index 112 Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Poem by John Wipp translated and republished with permission of Ellerströms Publishing House Chapter 2: Quotation from Art India Magazine Vol. 4, Issue 1 (1999), pp. 64-67: ‘The Courage of being Rummana’, used with permission from Art India Magazine
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