Vishnu on Freud's desk: a reader in psychoanalysis and Hinduism / ed. by T. G. Vaidyanathan

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. 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. Edited By T.g. Vaidyanathan And Jaffrey J. Kripal. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [456]-470) And Index. This book traces some of the colonial, postcolonial, and postmodern complexities of psychoanalytical thought as it has been variously applied to Hinduism. From Girindrisekhar Bose's pioneering reflections on the Indian Oedipal wish and the colonial positioning of early psychoanalytic practice in India, to postcolonial cultural criticism and contemporary clinical case studies, the collection spans close to a century of creative, sometimes radical, and always controversial thought about the psychological and theoretical riches of Hinduism.