Sengupta's
Animus, Psyche and Culture, takes C. G. Jung's controversial masculine other and makes it into the most searching and revelatory lens on culture and gender in India. This is Transdisciplinary Jungian research at its most creative and empowering.
Animus, Psyche and Culture blends depth psychology, Jung, post-Jungian scholarship, myth, film, religion and history for astonishing insights that put the animus forefront in thinking about culture and psyche. The book provides a vivid and compelling argument evaluating the tangle of gender, power, vision and individuation."
Susan Rowland (PhD) is core faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute and author of
Jung: A Feminist Revision (2002), and with Joel Weishaus,
Jungian Arts-Based Research and the Nuclear Enchantment of New Mexico (2021).
"A remarkable reworking and re-visioning of Jung's views on the contra-sexual other in the psyche, especially with regards to the experience of women. This is a work for the 21
st century, advancing analytical psychology through expertly chosen personal and cultural reflections on patterns of gendering. Sulagna Sengupta, an acclaimed cultural historian in Jungian studies, here opens up fertile paths for exploring gender fluidity while carefully respecting and articulating cultural differences. This well-researched text is a virtual banquet of Jungian and post-Jungian thought, contemporizing and bringing renewed relevance to a subject that had been submerged by past critiques. The presentation is richly storied and emancipatory, pioneering transdisciplinary principles in the study of culture and unconscious processes."
Joe Cambray, PhD, Past-President/CEO, Pacifica Graduate Institute.
"Sulagna Sengupta offers a rich phenomenological description of the animus in its many aspects, through a series of narratives in the context of Indian culture. She rightly underlines the importance of culture in the formation of the contra-sexual other. In doing so, she corrects the tendency to consider the animus one-sidedly as a merely subjective inner factor with fixed meanings, that reflect traditional gender assumptions. Through a discussion of the ideas of post-Jungian authors and Jung's own position on the animus, Sengupta offers a stimulating and convincing revision of Jung's views. The animus appears as an individuating life-force, which animates feminine journeys and facilitates creative endeavors in environmental activism, science, invention, and writing."
Paul Brutsche, PhD, Author of
Creativity- Patterns of Creative Imagination as Seen Through Art. 
