relation between Psychoanalytic approach of Freud and Shrimad Bhagwad Gita

One student (Deepa Shah) of the Dept of Psychology asked me this question. This is about that discourse.

 

Dear Deepa,

I never faced such challenges in my life to explain relation between Psychoanalytic approach of Freud and Shrimad Bhagwad Gita. Thank you very much to ask me such question.

Well, I am trying to write based on my own interpretations. Please tell me if I am wrong any where. I have studied Freud long ago.

I have told before that I do not find much relation between Freudian psychodynamics and Shrimad Bhagwad Gita. Both tried to explore the roots of anxiety.Freud assumes that anxiety occurs due to repressed energies. Repressed energies are coming out in  disguise to consciousness from unconsciousness. And when individual feels the actual image of repressed energies, anxiety occurs. Han's phobia is one example. To Freud, unconsciousness is reservoir of energy.

In Gita, we find that consciousness is reservoir of energy.  Energy comes through 'Nishkam karma'. In Mahabharata, we have seen Eklabya character who actually follows principles of nishkam karma. When man acquires knowledge and skills through nishkam karma, he becomes more confident. His self-efficacy level will be very high. Drona has understood so he exploited Eklabya. In Ramayana, I find Hanuman character as the nishkam karmi.

Person who does not acquire knowledge or skills through nishkma karma, he feels feeling of insecurity, fear of failure in front of challenges.

Freud highlighted testing the reality principle of Ego. Nishkam Karmi people always try to test the reality by accepting challenges.

Arjuna possessed all the skills, knowledges for war. I do not think that Arjuna was nishkam karmi. His initial attitude towards the competitors does not support it. He got chance to test his power of knowledge and skills against many people but not against  Karna (his strong competitor), Drona (his Guru), and Bhisma (his grand father). He could not think that his existing skills and knowledge were sufficient to fight against them. So  expressed his anxiety in the following slokas:

" Bepathushcha sharira me, romaharshacha jayate" (anxiety symptom)

Shri Krishna tried to enlighten  immense power within Arjuna through different suggestions but he failed. Finally, he showed his Biswarup. After Biswarup darshana, Arjuna was sure of his  competitors' defeat. He became confident and his anxiety was gone. The total process occurred in consciousness level.

Biswarup principle is not feasible for common men. So Krishna developed concept of 'Nishkam Karma' which is almost equal powerful to Biswarup principles.

Related to Freudian approach of defense mechanisms, Arjun used rationalization by saying that there were many elders so how could he fight against them. Shri Krishna understood the inner meaning of this words so he highlighted the principles of 'Nishkam karma' what Arjuna followed later.

Both Freud and Shri Krishna used individualistic approach of psychotherapy. Both analyzed human mind from different angles. Both explored several new constructs and their principles  to explain different phenomenon of anxiety.

Population Density in NE states

It is funny to find that though Tripura is smaller state, it's population density is very high. Arunachal pradesh is a big state but its density is least. On the other hand density is higher than national average in the very big state - Assam. Density of population indicates high immigration.

Problem of workers in North-East

Problem of workers in north-east can not be separated from the problems of North - East states.
N-E states suffer from followings :

Geographical

• Difficult terrain, wide variations in slopes and altitude
• Depletion of forests, degradation and erosion of soil, loss of bio-diversity, silting and raising of riverbed, increase in flood frequency and seismic prone environment.
• North East India is vulnerable to number of disasters. It is in highest Seismic Zone,Brahmaputra valley is prone to flood, landslide/flashflood is common to the whole region. Agricultural sector (land-man ratio = .66ha, National average = .32ha)
• Rain fed and mono cropped agricultural land
• Wide spread jhum cultivation due to lack of transport, storage and marketing infrastructures
• Dearth of location specific and system based technology, and no use of high yielding variety seeds, fertilizer and irrigation in most part of the regions.
• Unexplored rich mineral, plant and vegetable resources

Infrastructure in education, health care and communication systems

• Poor infrastructure facilities like transport, communication, input supply, marketing, credit and extension services;
• Lack of scope for higher education in different specialized fields.
  

Culture

• Crisis of tribal identity
• Apprehending loss of traditional livelihood
• Apprehending loss of inherited skills
• Difficulty in adoption of modern technology
• Rural workers felt crisis in following urban culture as their own culture is assumed to be at stake.
  

Health

• Rural
  Although tribesmen live close to nature, invariably their health and physique are poor. They suffer from various diseases such as malaria, yaws, tuberculosis, small pox, and venereal diseases and skin and eye diseases. In the main, to a large extent these are due to lack of clean drinking water, nutritive food, and of protection against extremes of climate.
• Urban
  Drug addiction and HIV
  Easy access to narcotic drugs
  Freedom in sexual relations

Organized sector does not absorb more labour force like past resulting sizable increase of unemployed labour force.

• Reduce unit cost of production
• Improve quality of products
• Augment purchasing power of consumers
• Improving skill of labour force through education and training.
• Development of labour intensive sectors- agriculture and allied services, food processing, rural non-farm sector like khadi and village industries, service sectors like health, education, information technology and communication,
  

Work Culture

• Discipline life
• Punctuality
• Cleanliness
• Quality consciousness
• Honesty
• Work as worship
  

Facilitating Inherited Skill

• Tribesmen have considerable inherited skill and it is essential that their arts and crafts should receive encouragement and support and they should be given facilities for vocational training.
• There are large number of subsidiary industries such as bee-keeping, basket-making, sericulture, spinning and weaving, fruit preservation and the manufacture of palm-gur which can be developed. Demonstration-cum-training are useful.
  

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National extension Movement

• Encouragement of settled forms of agriculture in place of shifting cultivation,
  improvement of agriculture,
• Provision of medical and public health services,
• Improvement of communications,
• Development of arts and crafts,
• Organisation of cooperatives
• Establishment of community welfare centres.
  Such centres are a valuable method for developing local participation and leadership and are specially suited for associating the best type of local workers as well as others from more advanced areas.
  
  

Population
Multilingualism
Culture difference between plain and hill areas
Mis link between education and economy
Very high unorganized labour force

Seven Sisters of India

The North East of India constitutes the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura.
Flanked by hills and with the mighty Brahmaputra river slashing a central path between its north and south, the North East is bounded by the States of Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura with Assam comprising the heart. Arunachal Pradesh lies to its north and Sikkim a little away in the North West bordering China and Bhutan. Bangladesh and Myanmar lie to its southwest and east. The torrential Brahmaputra deposits its rich alluvial silt along the banks of the plains of Assam. Tropical rain forest, rich in flora and fauna, spread their arms across Arunachal Pradesh into Assam. It is a land where tea is an industry, handicrafts a major occupation and martial arts a favoured sport.

Globalization and Career guidance

Classical approach of career guidance is at stake as we are passing through job unstructuring due to globalization. We are moving from local to domestic, domestic to international and international to transnational, therefore each job responsibility becomes more unpredictable. Since labor market or career market is unpredictable, one should redefine the concept of career.

 

Career is not mere a job for which individual intends to train him or herself. Now career is nothing but role or constellation of roles having some marketing value.

 

It is a time to think how to export career, how to reconfigure existing skills, how to engineer a new career.

 

Career is just like Ganges river having many branches with different names. Like Ganges career is a flow of information, capital, labor, product and services. Due to its value, people come to the Ganges. Like that due to its high marketing value, people come to the different phases of career.

 

The above is some of the excerpts of my today's talk in the Rotary club, North Calcutta.

Few memorable events

On 24th September, Phoebus house in association with All India Seishinkai Shito-Ryu karate-do Federation (24pgs-N) gave me memento for invaluable guidance to them.

 

 

Few memorable events

On 24th September, Phoebus house in association with All India Seishinkai Shito-Ryu karate-do Federation (24pgs-N) gave me memento for invaluable guidance to them.

 

 

Workers Participation in Management (WPM)

WPM refers to intellectual and emotional involvement of the workers in solving different issues of the organization. In WPM, if the union members keep themselves busy with only wages and job conditions of the workers, they may be deprived of the main strategic issues of the organization. In a recent visit at the Haldia Dock Complex (23-24.2.05), I find that union leaders talk about productivity and quality of the organization. It is amazing to me when I find that one leader opposes overtime for the workers.
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Is OB useful in Trade union understanding ?

I have been thinking very deeply for few days that whether principles of OB are applicable in TU or not ? Finally, I find that if we consider TU as a tool for only collective bargaining, very few principles of OB may work here. In that case we can limit our understanding on basic concept of leadership, work motivation etc. But to me TU can not be considered in terms of power metaphor it is more than that. Can we consider it as open system like the biological system ?

What is Organizational Behaviour ?

DEFINITION OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
It is the field of study to describe, to predict and to control the behaviour of individual, group and organization.

Individual Characteristics
1. Personality (Introversion- Extraversion) Locus of control, Authoritarian personality, Type A and type B personality, self-efficacy)
2. Need hierarchy
3. Intelligence
4. Aptitude (Manual dexterity, Numeric ability, Spatial ability, Verbal ability)
5. Perception (Attention, perceptual organization) of others (stereotype, Halo effect)
6. Attitude (beliefs, values, feelings about particular object)
7. Memory (STM, LTM)
8. Learning (Conditioning, Trial and error, Insight)

Behavioural processes of Individual Characteristics in context of Organization
1. Job Satisfaction
2. Work motivation and Job characteristics
3. Employee turnover
4. Employee absenteeism
5. Accident
6. Organizational commitment
7. Individual decision making
8. Job stress (role underload, overload, role ambiguity

GROUP BEHAVIOUR

Group Characteristics
1. Types (Formal and Informal )
2. Group structure
3. Group norm
4. Group cohesiveness
5. Group decision making

Behavioural Processes
1. Team working
2. Power
3. Leadership
4. Inter group conflict

ORGANIZATION’S BEHAVIOUR
Characteristics
1. Goals
2. Structure (Centralization, specialization, formalization, standardization)

Processes
1. Organizational cultures
2. Organizational climate
3. Organizational health

Objectives and Problems of trade union

OBJECTIVES OF TRADE UNION
1. To improve the wages
2. To safeguard and improve the standards of working people
3. To campaign for laws and policies which will benefit working people.

PROBLEMS OF TRADE UNION
1) Sectionalism,
2) Competition for members,
3) Demarcation of work, and
4) Lack of a coordinated policy.

Organizational behaviour for trade union

Organizational behaviour for trade union

Trade union is at stake

Trade union leaders are working in the formal organized sectors. But gradually, this formal organized sectors are reducing. Due to economic transformation, commercial organizations are moving from domestic marketing to global marketing to transnational marketing. For this reason, more informal sectors are supposed to grow. At this juncture, what will be role of trade Union as there will be less number of organized sectors ?