Freud's India: Sigmund Freud and India's First Psychoanalyst Girindrasekhar Bose

ISBN-13: 9780190878375 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 326 str.

Alf Hiltebeitel

Opis

This book provides a suspenseful exploration of the conflictual relationship between Sigmund Freud and Girindrasekhar Bose, the first president (as of 1921) of the Indian Psychoanalytic Society and the most prominent promoter, though also contester and complicator, of Freudian ideas in South Asia from the 1920s to the 1940s.

Recenzje

This fascinating study gives nuanced attention to a specific historical focus-the Freud/Bose letters-to open up a profound and comprehensive exploration of the place of the feminine in Hindu myth and thought and the lack of recognition of the feminine in Freud and in most of western thought.

O autorze

Alf Hiltebeitel is Professor of Religion at George Washington University. He works mainly on the two Sanskrit epics, the Mahābhārata and Ramayana, and on the south Indian Draupadi cult, which worships the Mahabharata's leading heroine as the Goddess. He is a historian of religions who studies Hinduism with longstanding interests in Sigmund Freud and in the comparative study of Judaism.