 Understanding Indians in a Global EraAlan Roland Chapter 7 in Institutional Dynamics and the Evolution of the Indian Economy, 2009, pp 157-169 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract Over twenty-eight years ago, I first went to India and then to Japan on a clinical psychoanalytic research project. I found significantly different configurations of the self from what I had encountered over the years in a wide variety of Euro-American patients in New York City. I formulated this as a familial self—in India a familial/communal self and in Japan a familial/group self —with various subcategories, incontrast to a Northern European/North American individualized self. I further found that to understand the Indian and Japanese familial self I had to relate it to their indigenous sociocultural patterns, particularly to the extended family, to three psychosocial dimensions of their hierarchical relationships, and to insider and outsider relationships (Roland, 1988). I later realized that much of the rest of the world has one variation or another of the familial self, that it is primarily the Northern European/North A merican culture area in modern Western history that has developed the individualized self (Roland, 1996).1 Keywords: Hierarchical Relationship; Psychosocial Dimension; Formal Hierarchy; Junior Member; Spiritual Reality (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-62013-1_7 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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