All the Mothers Are One: Hindu India and the Cultural Reshaping of Psychoanalysis

by Stanley N. Kurtz

Book Overview

Based on the author's ethnographic research in India, the book explores the psychology of Hinduism, and offers an innovative synthesis of psychoanylsis with modern anthropological theories of cultural difference. Stanley N. Kurtz offers a new interpretation of the multiple "mother goddesses" of Hinduism, and explores how this multiplicity is key to understanding early childhood experience in which a child is raised by many "mothers" in the Hindu...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231078692
• ISBN13: 9780231078696
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher