Freud along the Ganges : psychoanalytic reflections on the people and culture of India / edited by Salman Akhtar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Akhtar, Salman, 1946 July 31-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis and culture--India.

Psychoanalysis and culture.

Ethnopsychology--India.

Ethnopsychology.

India.

Physical Description:

xix, 451 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Other Press, [2005]

Contents:

1 Psychoanalysis in India / Salman Akhtar, Pratyusha Tummala-Narra 3

Mind

2 The Development of Gandhi's Self / Prakash N. Desai, Hyman L. Muslin 29

3 Rabindranath Tagore and Freudian Thought / Santanu Biswas 53

4 Multiple Mothering and the Familial Self / Alan Roland 79

5 Hindu-Muslim Relations in India: Past, Present, and Future / Salman Akhtar 91

6 Bollywood and the Indian Unconscious / Salman Akhtar, Komal Choksi 139

Body

7 The Cloistered Passion of Radha and Krishna / Sudhir Kakar, John Munder Ross 177

8 Sita-Shakti @ Cultural Collision: Issues in the Psychotherapy of Diaspora Indian Women / Jaswant Guzder, Meenakshi Krishna 205

9 Psychic Bisexuality, Male Homosexuality, Plural Oedipus Complex, and Hinduism / Bhaskar Sripada 235

Spirit

10 Manifestations of God in India: A Transference Pantheon / Dwarakanath G. Rao 271

11 Psychoanalytic Process in a Sacred Hindu Text: The Bhagavad Gita / Satish Reddy 309

12 Psychoanalytic and Buddhist History and Theory / Jeffrey B. Rubin 335

13 Advaita Vedanta, Psychoanalysis, and the Self / Madhusudana Rao Vallabhaneni 359

14 The Ganges River: Metaphor and Mythopoeisis / Prajna Paramita Prasher 397.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1590510909

OCLC:

57432180