Jouissance as ānanda, Indian philosophy, feminist theory, and literature / Ashmita Khasnabish.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khasnabish, Ashmita, 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jouissance as Ananda seeks to resolve the often-problematic Western concept of the ego by proposing a cross-cultural theory of consciousness that draws on Indian philosophy. Author Ashmita Khasnabish uses the Indian concept of ananda to advance Irigaray's theory of jouissance and offers a re-reading of jouissance from an Indian cross-cultural psychoanalytic point of view.

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; PART I: THEORY; 1 Jouissance as Ānanda (Bliss); 2 Rādhā's Jouissance; 3 Body in Transcendance: Jouissance and Kali; 4 Women in the East and Women in the West; 5 The Ascent and Descent: Irigaray and Brennan through Indian Philosophy; PART II: LITERATURE; 6 Jouissance and Ānanda in Joyce; 7 Ego and Its Transcendance in Tagore's The King of the Dark Chamber; 8 Is Jouissance Writing or Love?; 9 Love on the Spiritual and the Corporeal Planes in The Mistress of Spices; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-82-16-32383-9

0-7391-0467-5

0-7391-5679-9

OCLC:

854977832