Sudhir Kakar

Sudhir Kakar (born Monday, 25 July 1938) is an Indian psychoanalyst and author in the fields of cultural psychology and the psychology of religion.

Education and personal life

Kakar spent his early childhood near Sargodha, now in Pakistan. and also in Rohtak, Haryana state; his father was an additional district magistrate during the British Raj and during the partition of India, and the family moved quite a bit from city to city. At age eight he was enrolled as a boarder in Modern School, New Delhi; he would later write about homosexual encounters in the school dormitories. He next attended St Edward's School, Simla. He began his Intermediate Studies at Maharaja's College, Jaipur in 1953 after which his family sent him to Ahmedabad, Gujarat, where Kakar lived with his aunt, Kamla Chowdhury, and attended engineering college. After college, he attended Mannheim, Frankfurt am Main and Vienna. Kakar received a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering, a Master's degree (Diplom-Kaufmann) in business economics and became Doctor of Economics. He began his training in psychoanalysis at the Sigmund-Freud Institute in Frankfurt, Germany in 1971.