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How often have we, as psychoanalytic clinicians, considered the ethnocentric limits of psychoanalysis when working with a patient of a different cultural upbringing? How familiar do we have to be with patients' cultural backgrounds to effectively treat their suffering? How much have we deeply contemplated how our own cultural subjectivity influences what we perceive as good or bad about our patients' ways of relating? How did psychoanalytic theories become disentangled from their historical and cultural surround and privileged as universally valid? Sudhir Kakar offers a compelling exploration of these essential questions, drawing on clinical, historical, and personal examples in the Indian Jungle from the perspective of his Indian, Hindu cultural imagination. Kakar proposes that we all have a cultural imagination, which is largely unconscious, that shapes our distinct worldviews, ideas about reality, and beliefs. He theorizes that our cultural imaginations develop through the “emotional stirrings of the heart and body” (p. xiv) from early childhood through the ongoing exposure to lives, songs, and stories of a large group of people who share a common culture. He emphasizes, though, how mental representations of culture have largely been neglected and unexplored in psychoanalytic discourse. By not analyzing our cultural imaginations and those of our patients, Kakar believes we lose the rich tapestry of cultural upbringing and how culture is ingrained in how we cognitively organize and understand experiences, what we consider real and unreal, how we know our own needs and desires, and how we are touched, held, and fed.