The Invisible Price of India’s Caste System

Описание: Discover the compelling story of Rajesh Kumar, who opens up about his emotional battles linked to caste and discrimination. This discussion offers insights into the philosophy of healing and the relevance of psychoanalysis in overcoming societal conditioning.

In a raw, unfiltered discussion with Rajesh Kumar sir, he shares his own personal experience from childhood on how caste influences human conditioning so intricately. The emotional conditioning and neglect is rooted since our childhoods.

He shared how primary caregivers hold an important part of our personality and what influences it. It was very overwhelming to hear how caste dynamism shaped his initial childhood which shaped his human psyche today.

His exposure to caste from a tender age not only alienated him socially but estranged psychologically as a Dalit. The constant internal battle he went through costed his free will and freedom to grow in a healthy community.

It was only at the university, he crossed paths with people who made him feel accepted and safe. This shaped his further journey to learn and unlearn the social conditioning enforced since childhood.

Teachers like Diamond Mam made an impactful milestone in shaping his wisdom about human conditioning.He shared how he got inclined towards psychoanalysis through her. Then Shiv sir's arrival was another significant mirror who guided him to understand the Dalit literature critically.

These philosophies shaped his liberatory thinking which reshaped the way he rebuild his reality.Anup dhar's teachings on anti-oedipus complex further expanded his thinking to study Lacan and Karl Marx.

He shared how cactuses became his close friends and how the world of all these philosophers guided him to pave his path into psychoanalysis.

Sir's battle with caste and discrimination speaks about the millions of stories which is unspoken. It showed; how from a budding phase we install caste at a rudimentary level which further creates human conditioning in psychology.

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