Girindrasekhar Bose
Girindrasekhar Bose | |
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Calcutta, West Bengal, India | |
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Girindrasekhar Bose (31 January 1887 – 3 June 1953) was an early 20th-century
Freud's Oedipus complex theory, he has been pointed to by some as an early example of non-Western contestations of Western methodologies. Apart from this, he also started the first general hospital psychiatry unit (GHPU) in Asia at the R.G. Kar Medical College, Calcutta in 1933.[2]
Life and work
Bose's doctoral thesis, Concept of Repression (1921) blended
International Psychoanalytic Association, for membership of that body. Bose did so and the Indian Psychoanalytic Society, with Bose as president (a position he held until his death in 1953) became a full-fledged member of the international psychoanalytic community.[1][5] The review of the Indian Psychoanalytic Society is called Samiksha[6]
and its first edition appeared in 1947.
Works
- Concept of Repression. By Girindrashekhar Bose. Published by G. Bose, 14 Parsi Bagan, Calcutta, India. 1921. 223 pp. Rs. 10/ net.[7]
- (with Ernest Jones and others) Glossary for the use of translators of psycho-analytic works, 1926
- Bose, G. (1930). "The psychological outlook of Hindu philosophy". Indian Journal of Psychology. 5: 119–46.
- Bose, Girindrasekhar. (1933). "A New Theory of Mental Life". Indian Journal of Psychology, 37-157.
Notes
- ^ a b Sudhir Kakar, 'Girindrasekhar Bose (1886-1953), International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis. Reprinted online at answers.com
- PMID 29527048.
- ^ Text of Girindrasekhar Bose's letter to Freud, December 1920
- ^ Owen Berkeley Hill 1879—1944
- eNotes.com
- ^ Samiksha Archived 2012-04-26 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Review, Psychoanalytic Review 9:104 (1922)
References
- Hartnack, Christiane. (1990). "Social Research, 57 (4), 921-949.
- Hartnack, Christiane. (2003). "Freud on Garuda's Wings - Psychoanalysis in Colonial India". IIAS Newsletter #30, March 2003
- Indian Psychoanalytical Society. (1955). Samiksa Special Issue on Bose.
- Ramana, C.V. (1964). "On the Early History and Development of Psychoanalysis in India". Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. 12: 110–134. S2CID 32018262.
- Kakar, Sudhir. (1997). "Encounters of the psychological kind: Freud, Jung and India" in Culture and Psyche: Psychoanalysis and India. New York, Psyche Press.
- Mehta, P. (1997). "The Import and Export of Psychoanalysis: India". Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis. 25 (3): 455–471. PMID 9513126.
- Nandy, Ashis. 'The savage Freud: the first non-Western psychoanalyst and the politics of secret selves in colonial India', in The savage Freud and other essays on possible and retrievable selves, Princeton University Press, 1995, pp. 81–144
Further reading
- T.G. Vaidyanathan & Jeffrey J. Kripal (editors): Vishnu on Freud's Desk: A Reader in Psychoanalysis and Hinduism, Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-565835-3, Paperback (Edition: 2003)
- Amit Ranjan Basu,"Girindrasekhar Basu and the coming of psychology in colonial India," Theoretical Perspective, Vol.6, 1999, pp. 26–55.
- Amit Ranjan Basu, "Emergence of a Marginal Science in a Colonial City: Reading Psychiatry in Bengali Periodicals." Indian Economic and Social History Review, 41, 2004, pp 103–141.
- Amit Ranjan Basu, "Historicizing Indian psychiatry" Indian Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 47, No. 2, 2005, pp. 126–129.
- Amit Ranjan Basu, The Coming of Psychoanalysis in Colonial India: the Bengali Writings of Dr. Girindrasekhar Bose, No. 5, 1999 (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences), Enreca Occasional Paper Series - Cu[l]ture and the Disciplines: Papers from the Cultural Studies Workshops/Tapti Guha Thakurta (35.54 p.)
- Christopher Harding, ‘The Freud Franchise: Independence of Mind in India and Japan’, in R. Clarke (ed), Celebrity and Colonialism: Fame, Power and Representation in (Post) Colonial Cultures (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009).
- Christopher Harding, 'Freud in Asia'. BBC Radio 3 documentary, broadcast 16 November 2014. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04p51zy
External links
- Biography
- Bose-Freud correspondence.
- About IPA, see "How did the IPA begin?"
- Books by Girindrasekhar Bose
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