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

The sharp contrast between cultures with a monotheistic paternal deity and those with pluralistic maternal deities is a theme of abiding interest in religious studies. Attempts to understand the implications of these two vast organizing principles for religious life lead to an overwhelmingly
diverse set of facts and their meanings. In Freud's India, the companion volume to Freud's Mahs-- Sigmund Freud and Girindrasekhar Bose. Hiltebeitel examines the attempts of these two men to communicate with and understand each other and these issues in the heated context of emotionally divisive
allegiances. The book is elegant in its nuanced attention to these two thinkers and its tightly controlled exploration of what their interactions reveal about their contributions and limitations as representatives of the psychology and religion of their respective cultures. Anxieties about mothers,
says Hiltebeitel, separate Eastern from Western imaginations. They separate Freud from Bose, and they separate Hindu foundational texts from the foundational texts of Judaism.

Author: Alf Hiltebeitel
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/04/2018
Pages: 326
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780190878375

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2019

About the Author

Alf Hiltebeitel is Professor of Religion at George Washington University. He works mainly on the two Sanskrit epics, the Mah

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