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Kakar spent his early childhood near [[Sargodha]], now in Pakistan{{Sfn|Singh|2011}} and also in [[Rohtak]], where 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.{{Sfn|Singh|2011}}<ref>Kakar, Sudhir. "Colors of Violence." Chapter 2, p25.</ref> At age eight he was enrolled as a [[Boarding school|boarder]] in [[Modern School, New Delhi]];{{Sfn|Singh|2011}} he would later write about homosexual encounters in the school dormitories.{{Sfn|Singh|2011}} He next attended [[St. Edward's School, Shimla]].{{Sfn|Singh|2011}} 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.{{Sfn|Singh|2011}} After his B.E. degree in [[Mechanical Engineering]] from [[Gujarat University]] 1958, Kakar obtained a master's equivalent in business administration (Dipl.-Kfm.) at the [[University of Mannheim]] (1960–64), and a [[Doctor (title)|Doctor's degree]] in Economics at the [[University of Vienna]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.sudhirkakar.com/sudhir1.htm |title = Sudhir Kakar}}</ref> He began his training in psychoanalysis at the [[Goethe University Frankfurt|University of Frankfurt]]'s Sigmund-Freud Institute in 1971. | Kakar spent his early childhood near [[Sargodha]], now in Pakistan{{Sfn|Singh|2011}} and also in [[Rohtak]], where 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.{{Sfn|Singh|2011}}<ref>Kakar, Sudhir. "Colors of Violence." Chapter 2, p25.</ref> At age eight he was enrolled as a [[Boarding school|boarder]] in [[Modern School, New Delhi]];{{Sfn|Singh|2011}} he would later write about homosexual encounters in the school dormitories.{{Sfn|Singh|2011}} He next attended [[St. Edward's School, Shimla]].{{Sfn|Singh|2011}} 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.{{Sfn|Singh|2011}} After his B.E. degree in [[Mechanical Engineering]] from [[Gujarat University]] 1958, Kakar obtained a master's equivalent in business administration (Dipl.-Kfm.) at the [[University of Mannheim]] (1960–64), and a [[Doctor (title)|Doctor's degree]] in Economics at the [[University of Vienna]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.sudhirkakar.com/sudhir1.htm |title = Sudhir Kakar}}</ref> He began his training in psychoanalysis at the [[Goethe University Frankfurt|University of Frankfurt]]'s Sigmund-Freud Institute in 1971. | ||
In 1975, Sudhir Kakar moved to Delhi with his aunt, Kamla.{{Sfn|Singh|2011}} Kakar now resides in Goa and is married to Katharina, a writer and a scholar of comparative religions.<ref>{{cite book|title=Moving to Goa|author=Katarina Kakar|publisher=Viking|date=2013}}</ref> | In 1975, Sudhir Kakar moved to Delhi with his aunt, Kamla.{{Sfn|Singh|2011}} Kakar now resides in Goa and is married to Katharina, a writer and a scholar of comparative religions.<ref name="Katarina Kakar 2013">{{cite book|title=Moving to Goa|author=Katarina Kakar|publisher=Viking|date=2013}}</ref> | ||
==Career== | ==Career== | ||
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After returning to India in 1975, Sudhir Kakar set up a practice as a psychoanalyst in Delhi where he was also the Head of Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology. He has been 40th Anniversary Senior Fellow at the Centre for Study of World Religions at Harvard (2001–02), a visiting professor at the universities of Chicago (1989–93), McGill (1976–77), Melbourne (1981), Hawaii (1998) and Vienna (1974–75), INSEAD, France (1994-2013). He has been a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute of Advanced Study), Berlin, Centre for Advanced Study of Humanities, University of Cologne. | After returning to India in 1975, Sudhir Kakar set up a practice as a psychoanalyst in Delhi where he was also the Head of Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology. He has been 40th Anniversary Senior Fellow at the Centre for Study of World Religions at Harvard (2001–02), a visiting professor at the universities of Chicago (1989–93), McGill (1976–77), Melbourne (1981), Hawaii (1998) and Vienna (1974–75), INSEAD, France (1994-2013). He has been a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute of Advanced Study), Berlin, Centre for Advanced Study of Humanities, University of Cologne. | ||
Kakar was in private psychoanalytic practice in New Delhi for 25 years before moving to his current place of residence in [[Goa]], India.<ref | Kakar was in private psychoanalytic practice in New Delhi for 25 years before moving to his current place of residence in [[Goa]], India.<ref name="Katarina Kakar 2013"/> He is currently a Visiting Professor at Goa University.<ref>{{cite web|title=Directorate of Visiting Research Professors Programme (DVRPP)|url=https://www.unigoa.ac.in/academics/a/continuing-education-programmes/directorate-of-visiting-research-professors-programme-dvrpp.html}}</ref> | ||
He created controversy in a symposium regarding the Death Penalty for Child Rape in 2018 by advocating leniency towards perpetrators of child rape, emphasizing protection of the family reputation and the family bond over the child's safety.<ref>{{cite web|title=Interview with Sudhir Kakar|url=https://www.india-seminar.com/2018/711/711_interview_s_kakar.htm}}</ref> | He created controversy in a symposium regarding the Death Penalty for Child Rape in 2018 by advocating leniency towards perpetrators of child rape, emphasizing protection of the family reputation and the family bond over the child's safety.<ref>{{cite web|title=Interview with Sudhir Kakar|url=https://www.india-seminar.com/2018/711/711_interview_s_kakar.htm}}</ref> | ||
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At a personal level, Kakar feels that spirituality for him consists of moments of profound connection with a person, nature, art, music, and for those who believe in God, with the Divine. | At a personal level, Kakar feels that spirituality for him consists of moments of profound connection with a person, nature, art, music, and for those who believe in God, with the Divine. | ||
His spiritual beliefs have been influenced by a combination of a rationalistic, agonistic father and a religious, ritualistic mother.<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Culture and Psychoanalysis: A Personal Journey|title=Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology. Vol. 50, No. 2. |year=2006|pages= | His spiritual beliefs have been influenced by a combination of a rationalistic, agonistic father and a religious, ritualistic mother.<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Culture and Psychoanalysis: A Personal Journey|title=Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology. Vol. 50, No. 2. |year=2006|pages=25–44|author=Sudhir Kumar|URL=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23182008?seq=1|publisher=Berghahn Books}}</ref> | ||
==Awards and honors== | ==Awards and honors== | ||