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The Party, The Guests, and Why Viṣṇu Ananta Deva?
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Why did Bose send a statuette of Viṣṇu from distant Kerala to Freud for his 75th birthday rather than a Bengali goddess? The first half of chapter 7 looks at clues about the choice of the statuette of “Viṣṇu Ananta Deva.” The second half then examines various icons of Viṣṇu (or his avatars) on the hypothesis that the snake as seat and hooded backdrop represents the unconscious, which would befit Ananta contemplating his navel. A comparison with a sanctum image of Viṣṇu in a more familiar pose of lying on Ananta’s coils on the cosmic waters suggests that the two images were interreferential. In that case, the banyan leaf is interchangeable with the serpent couch and hood, and Viṣṇu is interchangeable with the pre-Oedipal baby Kṛṣṇa. The snake also appears as seat and hooded protector for Viṣṇu in his Man-Lion form, where the iconography suggests unconscious Oedipal themes.
Title: The Party, The Guests, and Why Viṣṇu Ananta Deva?
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Why did Bose send a statuette of Viṣṇu from distant Kerala to Freud for his 75th birthday rather than a Bengali goddess? The first half of chapter 7 looks at clues about the choice of the statuette of “Viṣṇu Ananta Deva.
” The second half then examines various icons of Viṣṇu (or his avatars) on the hypothesis that the snake as seat and hooded backdrop represents the unconscious, which would befit Ananta contemplating his navel.
A comparison with a sanctum image of Viṣṇu in a more familiar pose of lying on Ananta’s coils on the cosmic waters suggests that the two images were interreferential.
In that case, the banyan leaf is interchangeable with the serpent couch and hood, and Viṣṇu is interchangeable with the pre-Oedipal baby Kṛṣṇa.
The snake also appears as seat and hooded protector for Viṣṇu in his Man-Lion form, where the iconography suggests unconscious Oedipal themes.
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