The ‘Godless’ Freud and his Indian Friends: An Indian Agenda for Psychoanalysis

Abstract

In her article, ‘Freud in the Tropics’, Jacqueline Rose writes of the ‘missed encounter’ of Australia and its place and significance for the destabilization of the Freud-Jung partnership. The ‘phantom’ of Australia for both Freud and Jung becomes an entrée for Rose to chart and question how it produced differences between them. She asks, ‘What can this…encounter…tell psychoanalysis, and the forms of Western thinking which it both embodies and queries, about itself?’2