Sudhir kakar autobiography in five shorts
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One of India's most well-known psychoanalysts and writers, Sudhir Kakar, has passed away, leaving behind a rich legacy of books..
Sudhir Kakar on his autobiography
"I was more interested in the shape and contours of my psyche and those of others", says the celebrated Indian Psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar, in an exclusive interview with
Hindustan Times
at the launch of his autobiography,
A Book Of Memory.
You have authored several books fiction and non-fiction, how have your literary career and your professional experiences helped shape your own understanding of yourself?
I think all you do shapes your understanding of yourself if you keep reflecting on what you have done, if you don't reflect then you can do a lot of stuff and it doesn't make a difference.
Experience really is not events; otherwise any old person would have a lot of experience, which is not true. Experience is events multiplied by how much you have learnt from it. So if you are learning from those events, which means if your self-reflection is low then you don't learn from it.
So all that I have written, for me, is an exploring