General note: [Table of Contents]

Forward - Sudhir Kakar p. xi

Introduction - T.G. Vaidyanathan p. 1

Part 1. Girindrasekhar Rose. p. 19
1. -- The genesis and adjustment of the Oedipus wish / G. Bose. p. 21

Part 2. Freud and Hinduism p. 39
2. -- Freud's encounter with Hinduism: an historical-textual overview / W. B. Parsons p. 41
3. -- Vishnu on Freud's desk: psychoanalysis in colonial India / C. Hartnack p. 81

Part 3. The Indian Oedipus p. 107
4. -- The Indian Oedipus / A. K. Ramanujan p. 109
5. -- Fathers and sons / P. B. Courtright p. 137
6. -- Further steps in relativization : the Indian Oedipus revisited / G. Obeyesekere p. 147

Part 4. Early abd later theoretical formations p. 163
7. -- Hindu personality formation : unconscious processes / G. M. Carstairs p. 165
8. --Psychoanalytic approaches to Hindu child rearing : a critique / S. N. Kurtz p.185
9. -- Clinical work and cultural imagination / S. Kakar p. 216

Part 5. Psychoanalytic approaches to Hindu mysticism , myth and rituual. p. 233
10. -- Sex and yoga: psychoanalysis and the Indian religious experience / J.M. Masson p. 235
11. -- Karma, guilt, and buried memories : public fantasy and private reality in traditional India / R. P. Goldman p. 279
12. -- When a lingam is just a cood cigar : psychoanalysis and Hindu sexual fantasies / W. Doniger p. 279
13. -- Sati : a nineteenth century tale of two women, violence and power / A. Nandy p. 304
14. -- The bloodthirsty tongue and the self-feeding breast : homosexual fellatio fantasy in a South Indian ritual tradition / S. Caldwell p. 339
15. -- Selfhood in the Indian context : a psychoanalytic perspective/ A Collins, P Desai p. 367

Part 6. Case studies of individuals p. 399
16. -- Shakuntala / A. Roland p. 401
17. -- Dhannaram's depression: psychotherapy with an Indian villager / B.K. Ramanujam p.425

-- Afterword: Psychoanalysis and Hinduism: thinking through each other / J. J. Kripal p. 438

Appendix p. 453
Select bibliography p. 456
Index p. 471

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