CONTENTS:

INTRODUCTION

PART-1: HISTORICAL ASPECTS

1.1AGAMAS IN SAIVA SCHOOLS:

1.2AGAMA AND THEIR EVOLUTION:

1.3 HISTORICAL, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SITUATIONS:

1.4SIDDHANTHA BIBLIOGRAHY:

PART-2: THEORIES OF HERMENEUTICS :

2.1HERMENEUTICS AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

2.2DEVELOPMENT  OF HERMENEUTICS

PART-3:THEORIES OF UNCONSCIOUS:

3.1SPREAD OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY TO EUROPE

3.2PRE FREUDIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS

3.3FREUDIAN DEVELOPMENTS

3.4POST FREUDIAN DEVELOPMENTS

3.5EGO PSYCHOLOGY

3.6OBJECT RELATION THEORIES

3.7SELF PSYCHOLOGY

PART-4: METAPHYSICAL ASPECTS

4.1THE SIVAGNANABODHAM OF MEYKANDAR:

4.2METAPHYSICAL ANALYSIS  OF BODHAM

4.3ONTOLOGY AND COSMOLOGY

4.4SAIVA EPISTEMOLOGY

4.5LOGICAL METHODS IN SAIVA SIDDHANTHAM

4.6TELEOLOGY AND ESCHATOLOGY

4.7FREE WILL AND DETERMINISM:

4.8DAVIDSON’S ANOMOLOUS MONISM:

4.9FORM, FORMLESNESS AND FORMLESS- FORM

4.10EMPIRICISM AND RATIONALISM:

PART-5: PSYCHOANALALYTIC ASPECTS

5.1HERMENEUTICS AND PSYCHOANALYSIS:

5.2TEMPLE AS TOPOGRAPHICAL MODEL OF MIND

5.3PSYCHODYNAMIC INTERPRETATION OF MIND

5.4SIMILARITIES FROM THIRUMANTHIRAM- FRUEDIAN ORAL STAGE:

5.5THE OBJECT RELATION THEORIES IN PSYCHOANALYSIS

5.6STATUS OF SOUL IN SAIVASIDDHANTHA SCHOOLS:

5.7TRANSITION TO FREUDIAN TERMINOLOGIES:

5.8FRUEDIAN  STAGE CONTEXTS

5.9LATER FRUEDIAN  STAGES AND SAKTHINIPATHAM:

5.10REP5RESSION IN SIDDHANTHAM:

PART-6:  PHENOMENOLOGICAL  ASPECTS

6.1MENTAL STATE DESCRIPTIONS IN SADHASIVA AGAMAM:

6.2SYMPTOMATOLOGY OF MALAM: 

6.3MULTI-AXIAL CLASSIFICATION OF AVATHAIS:

6.4SIDDHANTHAM, PSYCHOANALYSIS & PHENOMENOLOGICAL 6.5GLOSSARY

6.6UNEXPLAINED MEDICAL SYMPTOMS :

6.7MAGNITUDE OF MENTAL ILLNESS:

6.8AGAMIC  PSYCHIATRY:

PART-7:PSYCHOPATHOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO SAIVA NAYANMAR’S LIFE

7.1PERIYAPURANAM AND SEVITEURS

7.2OBJECT RELATIONSHIP THEORY

7.3SELF PSYCHOLOGY

7.4OTTO KERNBERG

7.5ATTACHMENT THEORY

7.6ATTACHMENT WITH GOD

7.7EMPIRICAL  ANALYSIS OF GOD ATTACHMENT

PART-8   : SADHANA AND NITTAI-PSYCHOTHERAPY AND INSIGHT

8.1PSYCHOTHERAPY

8.2DHASA KARIAM (THE TEN STEPS):

8.3PANCHAKRA PAHRODAI

8.4KARIAM, KARUMBU AND KANU:

8.5NITTAI  VILAKKAM (EXPLANATIONS OF INSIGHT):

8.6MUKTHI: INSIGHT GRADING

8.7ROADS TO RIGHTEOUS LIFE:

8.8DHEEKAI -PSYCHOTHERAPY:

PART-9: COSMOGONY: CREATION OF UNIVERSE

CONCLUSION :

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: