Girindrasekhar Bose

Girindrasekhar Bose
Born Girindrasekhar Bose
(1887-01-30)30 January 1887
Died 3 June 1953(1953-06-03) (aged 66)
Nationality Indian

Girindrasekhar Bose (30 January 1887 – 3 June 1953) was an early 20th-century South Asian psychoanalyst, the first president (1922–1953) of the Indian Psychoanalytic Society.[1] Bose carried on a twenty-year dialogue with Sigmund Freud. Known for disputing the specifics of Freud's Oedipal theory, he has been pointed to by some as an early example of non-Western contestations of Western methodologies.

Life and work

Bose's doctoral thesis, Concept of Repression (1921) blended Hindu thought with Freudian concepts. He sent the thesis to Freud,[2] which led to a correspondence between the two men and to the formation of the Indian Psychoanalytic Society in 1922 in Calcutta. Of the fifteen original members, nine were college teachers of psychology or philosophy and five belonged to the medical corps of the Indian Army, including two British psychiatrists. One of them was Owen A.R. Berkeley Hill,[3] famous for his work at the Ranchi Mental Hospital. In the same year, Bose wrote to Freud in Vienna. Freud was pleased that his ideas had spread to such a far-off land and asked Bose to write to Ernest Jones, then President of the 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][4] The review of the Indian Psychoanalytic Society is called Samiksha[5] and its first edition appeared in 1947.

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Notes

  1. 1 2 Sudhir Kakar, 'Girindrasekhar Bose (1886-1953), International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis. Reprinted online at answers.com
  2. ↑ Text of Girindrasekhar Bose's letter to Freud, December 1920
  3. ↑ Owen Berkeley Hill 1879—1944
  4. ↑ Sudhir Kakar, 'India', inInternational Dictionary of Psychoanalysis. Reprinted online on eNotes.com
  5. ↑ Samiksha
  6. ↑ Review, Psychoanalytic Review 9:104 (1922)

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