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Freud, Bose, and the “Maternal Deity”
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Chapter 5 treats Bose’s discussion of “the sources of the maternal deity” by which, conjointly with his treatment of “the Oedipus mother,” he challenged Freud in a 1929 letter. The key text is Bose’s “Psychological Outlook of Indian Philosophy,” a 1930 address to the Indian Philosophical Association. Here Bose juxtaposes two approaches to deity. First, he cites Freudian projection theory, leaving open what a projection theory of “the sources of the maternal deity” would look like, but implies that it would be equally childish. He then turns to methods of envisioning devatās or “divinities,” and recalls debates over “what is a devatā” that were carried out between the philosophical schools of Mīmāṃsa and Vedānta in the early classical period. Thus a sophisticated, mature, and unchildish way of defining the sources of maternal deity emerges.
Title: Freud, Bose, and the “Maternal Deity”
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Chapter 5 treats Bose’s discussion of “the sources of the maternal deity” by which, conjointly with his treatment of “the Oedipus mother,” he challenged Freud in a 1929 letter.
The key text is Bose’s “Psychological Outlook of Indian Philosophy,” a 1930 address to the Indian Philosophical Association.
Here Bose juxtaposes two approaches to deity.
First, he cites Freudian projection theory, leaving open what a projection theory of “the sources of the maternal deity” would look like, but implies that it would be equally childish.
He then turns to methods of envisioning devatās or “divinities,” and recalls debates over “what is a devatā” that were carried out between the philosophical schools of Mīmāṃsa and Vedānta in the early classical period.
Thus a sophisticated, mature, and unchildish way of defining the sources of maternal deity emerges.
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