Psycho biography of gandhi indian

  • In this study of Mahatma Gandhi, psychoanalyst.
  • Erik Erikson has built the bridge for us between Freud and Gandhi-or, more precisely, between psycho- analysis and satyagraha.
  • Indian independence movement and the practice of psychoanalysis.
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    I remember reading and liking Erikson's first historical psycho-bio, Young Man Luther, in college. But this one, which the author jokingly refers to as Middle-Aged Mahatma (52), was initially a slog and a disappointment. Normally I turn to the preface or intro and the acknowledgements to get a glimpse of the author's personality and purpose, but in this work Erikson is front and center from the beginning.

    At first he describes his initial trip to India, his early impressions of sensory overload - feeling profoundly overwhelmed, apprehensive, filled with a sense of dislocation and "incomprehensible dread" (20) - and his gradual decision to focus on an early campaign of Gandhi's as the key to his whole career. What follows is his whole process of investigation and discovery, including conducting extensive interviews, reading correspondence and autobiographies, and of course (psycho)analyzing everything. Only after 250 pages does the author arrive at his narrative of "The Event" that is his purported focus. And only in the final 40 pages does he summarize his insights into the man and his methods.

    Perhaps in describing his study of Indian children at play, Erikson is warning us of the structure he ha
  • psycho biography of gandhi indian
  • Hello there and welcome to Psychology with Arjun.

    For my first edition of this newsletter, I bring to you a very special story focusing on the intersection of the Indian independence movement and the practice of psychoanalysis.

    Let me introduce the main characters of the story that we are going to read today.

    1. Erik Erikson: To the layman, the name Erik Erikson may simply be a case of an extreme alliteration but for those who have been educated in psychology, Erikson is the name that first comes to mind when you think of human development. If you are like me, you have spent hours trying to remember all of Erikson’s life stages and their concurrent challenges but, that is not what this particular article is about.

    2. M.K. Gandhi: Better known by the name Mahatma, Gandhi is everywhere in modern India. Whether it be our currency, our history books or even our NewsChannel debates. Gandhi truly lives on to this day and it is his legacy that influenced Erikson so much

    The scene is from 1962 Ahmedabad where an ageing Erik Erikson has been invited to lead a seminar on ‘Human Life cycle’. This was Erikson’s first visit to India and, unbeknownst to him, also the most important trip in his life.

    Erikson lived with a family at their residence in Ahmedabad but

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