Anup K. Dhar, Associate Fellow at Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore, India was a medical doctor, who driven by his critical take on psychiatry and psychology moved over to the interstices of Psychoanalysis-Feminism-Marxism. His PhD (Freud, Return to Freud and the Feminist Turn) was in Philosophy. He is coordinator of an applied research programme ‘Culture-Subjectivity-Psyche’ (CUSP) at CSCS, Bangalore, India. He is also in-charge of two initiatives - (a) Science Education and Allied Programmes and (b) General Education in Comparative Perspective - in the Higher Education Cell at CSCS. His present research work titled ‘Ab-Original Psychoanalysis: Fort-Da between the Windscreen and the Rear-view Mirror’ is premised on a history of the emergence and materialization of psychoanalytic conceptualizations-approaches in India bringing together trends that developed in Calcutta (the classical Freudian), in Bombay (the Kleinian), in Bangalore (the Jungian and the Jaspers-ian), in Delhi (Eriksonian).

Previous Academic Position: Research Fellow (2003-2007), Women’s Studies, The Asiatic Society, 1 Park Street, Calcutta - 700017, India.

I. Educational Qualifications:

M.B.B.S., M.A., Research Training Programme (RTP) at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta: Thesis Paper for RTP: The Coming of Psychoanalysis in Colonial Bengal: Sa(va)ge Psychoanalyst Girindrasekhar Bose), Ph. D. from Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University, Calcutta (Title of Ph. D. Thesis: Knowing the ‘mad’ ‘colonial’ ‘woman’: Freud, Return to Freud and the Feminist Turn)

II. Completed Book Projects -

(1) Kathapokathane Marx-Rabindranath: Unnayan O Bikalpa (co authored with A. Chakrabarti) – Gangchil, Kolkata - 2008.
(2) Global Capitalism and the World of the Third (co-authored with A. Chakrabarti and S. Cullenberg) – forthcoming from Worldview, New Delhi - 2008.
(3) Rethinking Dislocation and Development (co-authored with A. Chakrabarti) – forthcoming from Routledge – New York and London - 2009 [ISBN: 978-0-415-49453-3]
(4) Reading Lacan (co-authored with R. Biswas and A. Chakrabarti) – forthcoming from Worldview, New Delhi - 2009.

III. Published Monographs:

(i) Class Trouble – 2007 (co-authored with A. Chakrabarti and S. Cullenberg) – Sanhati – Calcutta.
(ii) Lesbian Standpoint – 2007 (co-authored with A. Achuthan and R. Biswas) – Sanhati – Calcutta.

IV. Publications in edited volumes –

1. “Lacanian Theory: Beyond or within the Linguistic Turn” in Post-structuralism and Cultural Theory, edited by Franson Manjali – Allied Publishers, New Delhi – 2006.   

2. “Madness, ‘Mental Health Science’ and the ‘Ethics of Psychoanalysis’” (co-authored with R. Biswas) in an edited volume titled Human Rights and Ethics: Conceptual Analysis and Contextual Applications ed. Shashi Motilal – published by Anthem Press, U.K.

3. “Orientalism and the Transition of India in the Era of Globalisation” (co-authored with Anjan Chakrabarti and Stephen Cullenberg) in Immigration and Migration: Social Change and Cultural Transformation – edited by Emory Elliot, Jasmine Payne and Patricia Ploerch – 2007.

4. “Rastra Bignan-e Naribad: Naribad-e Rashtra Bignan” in Rajnitir TattvaKatha (“Feminism in Political Theory: Political Theory in Feminism” in a collection of articles on Political Theory) edited by Deepak Das – published by Ekushe, Calcutta – 2004.

5. “Unreason and the ‘Ethics of Psychoanalysis’ ” in Glimpses into Behavioural Science: Methods and Themes in Practice: A Selection of ASC-CU Refresher Course Lectures. edited by : Jayanti basu and Hirendra Nath Gupta. Published by: UGC Academic Staff College, University of Calcutta, 2005

6. “Non-Reason, Madness, Mental Health Science and the ‘Ethics of Psychoanalysis’ ” (co-authored with R. Biswas) in Patient-Physician Relationship – ed. Ratna Dutta-Sharma and Sashimungla – Decent Books, New Delhi (in collaboration with Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.   

V. Journal articles –

1. “Survival of Violence: Violence of Survival” in Identity, Culture and Politics Vol 5, 1-2, 2004 published by the International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka and the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, Dakar, Senegal.

      < http://www.codesria.org/Links/Publications/icp1_04/dhar.pdf>

2. "Labour, Class and Economy: Rethinking Trade Union Struggle" (co-authored with Anjan Chakrabarti) in EPW Vol 43 No. 22 May 31 - June 06, 2008

      < http://www.epw.org.in/epw//uploads/articles/12314.pdf>

3. “Modernism and the Lacanian Real” (co-authored with A. Chakrabarti) in Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences – Kolkata, 2006.

4. “Return to Freud: Return to the Mystic Writing Pad” in Samiksha: Journal of the Indian Psychoanalytic Society - 2008.

5. “Psychiatry and its Discontents: Voices From Within” in Bengal Journal of Psychiatry – Publication of The Indian Psychiatric Society (co-authored), Vol. 12, No. 1, January, 2003.

6. “Postcolonial Psychiatry: Nothing (Post)Colonial About It” – a study in the life and works of the Bengali psychiatrist and Marxist Dr. Dhirendranath Ganguly in Bengal Journal of Psychiatry – Publication of The Indian Psychiatric Society, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2004.

7. “Whither the (Post)colonial: Freud and the Savage Freud” in Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences – Kolkata, July 2007.

8. “Children’s Working World through the Lens of Class” – (co-authored) in Journal of Social and Economic Development (published by Institute of Social and Economic Change [ISEC]) – 2007.

9. “Development and Capitalism: An Encounter with Tagore’s Ideas on the ‘Co-operative Principle’ ” (co-authored) in Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture and Society 20: 3, 487 - 499 – Routledge: New York and London, 2008.

10. “Rethinking Poverty Beyond Non-Surplus Theories: Class and Ethical Dimensions of Poverty Eradication” (co-authored) – in Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture and Society 20: 4, 673 - 687 – Routledge: New York and London, 2008.

11.  Commissioned Paper: “Science(s) of the Mind: Fort-Da between the Windscreen and the Rearview Mirror in MATERIALISM AND IMMATERIALISM IN INDIA AND THE WEST: VARYING VISTAS (Volume XII, Levels of Reality, Part 5 – ed. Partha Ghosh) as part of the broader Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture (PHISPC) in the Centre for Studies in Civilizations (CSC), under the general editorship of D P Chattopadhyay.

VI. Teaching Experience –

·        Taught Course Capital, Community and Subjectivity (Aug – Nov 2007) for 1^st and 2^nd year PhD Students at Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore.  

·        Teaching Supervision of Course Rethinking Media Laws (Aug – Oct 2007) at Christ College, Bangalore. 

·        Teaching Supervision of Course Introduction to Cultural Studies (Jan – March 2008) at Christ College, Bangalore.

·        Teaching Supervision of Course Introduction to Cultural Studies (July – October 2008) at Christ College, Bangalore.

·        Teaching Course Culture, Subjectivity and Psychoanalysis (Aug – Nov 2008) for 1^st year PhD Students at Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore.

·        Co-Coordinator (along with Ashish Rajadhyaksha) of Course titled ‘The Global City: Mapping Bangalore’ for students of the Eugene Lang College, New School, New York - June 16-July 12, 2008.

VII. Research Supervision -

(1) Guide to one M. Phil Student in Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University (Topic: Feminism and the Lesbian Woman) – Degree Awarded in 2007.
(2) Second Reader to Zainab Bawa, PhD Fellow, CSCS.