Though Freud never overtly refers to the Mahabharata, many of the Sanskrit epic's themes are illuminated by Freud's thought and, conversely, many incidents in the epic can be used to illustrate Freud's theories. In Freud's Mahabharata, Alf Hiltebeitel offers what he calls a "pointillist introduction" to a new theory about the Mahabharata based on Freud.

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.

Stan bardzo dobry - książka była czytana, ale jeszcze długo posłuży innym czytelnikom. Ma ślady używania - otwierania i kartkowania, rysy, zabrudzenia. Wygląda jak książka, którą wypożyczasz w bibliotece.
Throughout India and Southeast Asia, ancient classical epics the "Mahabharata" and the "Ramayana" continue to exert considerable cultural influence. "Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics" offers an unprecedented exploration into South Asia's regional epic traditions.
Using his own fieldwork as a starting point, Alf Hiltebeitel analyzes how the oral tradition of the...