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Vishnu on Freud's desk : a reader in psychoanalysis and Hinduism

✍ Scribed by Jeffrey John Kripal; T. G. Vaidyanathan

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Leaves
494
Series
Oxford India Paperbacks
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

This guide brings together examples of psychoanalysis' engagement with Hindu cultural and social phenomenon. Using psychoanalytical tools to examine the alien other throws up interesting questions both about the cultural context of the discipline itself and its relationship to Hinduism.

✦ Table of Contents

pt. 1. Girindrasekhar Bose. --
The genesis and adjustment of the Oedipus wish / G. Bose --
pt. 2. Freud and Hinduism --
Freud's encounter with Hinduism: an historical-textual overview / W.B. Parsons --
Vishnu on Freud's desk: psychoanalysis in colonial India / C. Hartnack --
pt. 3. The Indian Oedipus --
The Indian Oedipus / A.K. Ramanujan --
Fathers and sons / P.B. Courtright --
Further steps in relativization : the Indian Oedipus revisited / G. Obeyesekere --
pt. 4. Early and later theoretical formations --
Hindu personality formation : unconscious processes / G.M. Carstairs --Psychoanalytic approaches to Hindu child rearing : a critique / S.N. Kurtz --
Clinical work and cultural imagination / S. Kakar --
pt. 5. Psychoanalytic approaches to Hindu mysticism, myth and ritual. --
Sex and yoga: psychoanalysis and the Indian religious experience / J.M. Masson --
Karma, guilt, and buried memories : public fantasy and private reality in traditional India / R.P. Goldman --
When a lingam is just a good cigar : psychoanalysis and Hindu sexual fantasies / W. Doniger --
Sati : a nineteenth century tale of two women, violence and power / A. Nandy --
The bloodthirsty tongue and the self-feeding breast : homosexual fellatio fantasy in a South Indian ritual tradition / S. Caldwell --
Selfhood in the Indian context : a psychoanalytic perspective / A. Collins, P. Desai --
pt. 6. Case studies of individuals --
Shakuntala / A. Roland --
Dhannaram's depression: psychotherapy with an Indian villager / B.K. Ramanujam --
Psychoanalysis and Hinduism: thinking through each other / J.J. Kripal.

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