Freud's India : Sigmund Freud and India's first psychoanalyst Girindrasekhar Bose /

" A theme of abiding interest in religious studies is the sharp contrast between cultures with a monotheistic paternal deity and cultures with pluralistic maternal deities. These two principles for organizing religious life are vast; attempts to understand their implications lead to an overwhel...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hiltebeitel, Alf
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New Delhi OUP 2018
Subjects:
Freud, Sigmund, > 1856-1939 > Correspondence.
Bose, Girindrashekhar, > -1953 > Correspondence.
Psychoanalysts > Austria > Correspondence.
Psychoanalysts > India > Correspondence.
Psychology, Religious.
RELIGION / Hinduism / History.
RELIGION / Psychology of Religion.
RELIGION / Philosophy.
Table of Contents:
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  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Figures
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction: Beginnings of Tension and Drama in the Freud-Bose Correspondence
  • 2. Restoration of the Bose-Freud Correspondence: Light Shed on its First Two Phases from Freud's 1923-37 Correspondence with Romain Rolland, and a Missed Chance to Compare Views on the Preoedipal
  • 3. Unraveling of the Bose-Freud Correspondence, with More Light Shed
  • from the Freud-Rolland Correspondence and from Freud's 1933-34 Work with H. D.
  • 4. Opposite Wishes
  • 5. Freud, Bose, and the 'Maternal Deity'
  • 6. The Oedipus Mother
  • 7. The Party, the Guests, and Why Visnu Ananta-Deva
  • 8. Thinking Goddesses, Mothers, Brothers, and Snakes with Freud and Bose
  • 9. The Oceanic Goddess in the Gift to Freud
  • Bibliography.

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