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Girls from Samarth Vyayam Mandir at Shivaji Park in Dadar perform on the rope mallakhamb.

Souza’s Jung

A dated photograph of FN Souza from 1955. Pic Courtesy/Wikimedia Commons; (right) The book. Pic Courtesy/Niyogi Books

Who said psychology cannot be rewarding? Janeita Singh’s latest title FN Souza: The Archetypal Artist (Niyogi Books) was awarded the 2025 Oxford Bookstore Art Book Prize this week. “The journey for the book began in 2011 to 2013, when I was going through a personal turmoil, and into readings of literature and art. That’s when I began looking again at Francis Newton Souza’s art. Till then, I had always regarded him as part of the Bombay Progressive Artists Group [PAG]. But as part of the self-healing process, I began perceiving new insights into it. By then I had been embedded in Carl Jung’s psychology. I was fascinated by the uneasy space in his art. He was able to access, not just his personal, but the collective unconscious too,” she revealed.