Bøker av Alf (Professor of Religion Hiltebeitel

This book provides a suspenseful exploration of the conflictual relationship between Sigmund Freud and Girindrasekhar Bose, the first president (as of 1921) of the Indian Psychoanalytic Society and the most prominent promoter, though also contester and complicator, of Freudian ideas in South Asia from the 1920s to the 1940s.

Though Freud never overtly refers to the Mahabharata, many of the Sanskrit epic's themes are illuminated by Freud's thought and, conversely, many incidents in the epic can be used to illustrate Freud's theories. In Freud's Mahabharata, Alf Hiltebeitel offers what he calls a "pointillist introduction" to a new theory about the Mahabharata based on Freud.