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Freud's Mahābhārata

Title
  1. Freud's Mahābhārata / Alf Hiltebeitel.
Published by
  1. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
  2. ©2018
Author
  1. Hiltebeitel, Alf

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Description
  1. xxii, 298 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
  1. "This book presents several new ways that Freud's work enlivens interpretation of the whole Mahabharata and its vernacular retellings. It takes Freud's 'The 'Uncanny'' as an entrée. Drawing on work of the French psychoanalyst André Green, it shows how the epic's main story from beginning to end follows the 'depressive posture' of the 'dead mother complex.' And it pursues Freud's point in Moses and Monotheism that religious traditions should be studied from what has shaped their past unconsciously, including repressed trauma that affects historical memory. It builds on this premise to offer a new theory of the Mahabharata that focuses on its central background myth, called 'the unburdening of the Earth'"--
Subject
  1. Mahābhārata
  2. Criticism, interpretation, etc
  3. Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
  4. Psychology, Religious
  5. Psychoanalyse
  6. Ödipuskomplex
  7. Mutterkomplex
  8. Mahābhārata > Criticism, interpretation, etc
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contents
  1. Introduction: Freud's "The 'Uncanny'" and The Mahābhārata -- A short introduction to Freud's Mahābhārata through the Pāṇḍavas' Mother Kunti -- Two-times-three dead mother texts: dead mothers and nascent goddesses -- Uncanny domesticities: nascent goddesses in the Mahābhārata -- Kālī and Arāvaṉ-Kūttāṇṭavar: rethinking Bose's Oedipus mother -- Moses and Monotheism and the Mahābhārata: trauma, loss of memory, and the return of the repressed.
Call number
  1. JFE 18-9083
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author
  1. Hiltebeitel, Alf, author.
Title
  1. Freud's Mahābhārata / Alf Hiltebeitel.
Publisher
  1. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Copyright date
  1. ©2018
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN
  1. 2018001327
Other standard identifier
  1. 40028445989
ISBN
  1. 9780190878337 hardcover alkaline paper
  2. 0190878339 hardcover alkaline paper
Research call number
  1. JFE 18-9083
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