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Freud's Mahabarata /

"This book presents several new ways that Freud's work enlivens interpretation of the whole Mahabharata and its vernacular retellings. It takes Freud's 'The 'Uncanny'' as an entrée. Drawing on work of the French psychoanalyst André Green, it shows how the epic'...

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Autor principal: Hiltebeitel, Alf
Format: Printed Book
Idioma:English
Publicat: New Delhi OUP 2018
Matèries:
Taula de continguts:
  • Introduction: The Mahabharata and Freud's "The 'Uncanny'"
  • A short introduction to Freud's Mahabharata through the Pandavas' Mother Kunti
  • Two times three dead mother texts: dead mothers and nascent goddesses
  • Uncanny domesticities: nascent goddesses in the baseline Mahabharata
  • Kali and Aravan-Kuttantavar: rethinking Bose's Oedipus mother
  • Moses and Monotheism and the Mahabharata: trauma, loss of memory, and the return of the repressed.