Book
Description:
While Indian academics and clinicians have been familiar with
psychoanalysis for many decades, they have kept this Western
model of the mind separate from the spiritual and philosophical
traditions of their own country. Freud Along the Ganges
bridges this important lacuna in psychoanalytic and Indic
studies by creating a new theoretical field where human motives
are approached not only psychoanalytically but also from the
perspective of the teachings of Buddha, Tagore, Ghandi, and
Salman Rushdie. The authors of this collection show how the
insights of these Indian masters give a new force to the Freudian
discovery by providing a basis to better understand the social
and psychological Indian makeup.
The book begins by questioning the applicability of the psychoanalytic
method to non-Western cultures. It then traces the history
of the psychoanalytic movement in India from its onset while
it emphasizes the intricate overlap between Indian existential
and mystical traditions and psychoanalysis, Freud Along
the Ganges offers a unique study of the ways that Indian
thought and psychoanalysis illuminate and enrich each other.