Girindrasekhar Bose (31 January 1887 – 3 June 1953) was an early 20th-century

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, the first president (1922–1953) of the Indian Psychoanalytic Society.Sudhir Kakar, 'Girindrasekhar Bose (1886-1953), ''International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis''
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Bose carried on a twenty-year dialogue with

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's Oedipal theory, he has been pointed to by some as an early example of non-Western contestations of Western methodologies. Apart from this, he also started the first general hospital psychiatry unit (GHPU) in Asia at the R.G. Kar Medical College, Calcutta in 1933.

Life and work

Bose's doctoral thesis, ''Concept of Repression'' (1921) blended

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with Freudian concepts. He sent the thesis to Freud, which led to a correspondence between the two men and to the formation of the Indian Psychoanalytic Society in 1922 in Calcutta. Of the fifteen original members, nine were college teachers of psychology or philosophy and five belonged to the medical corps of the Indian Army, including two British psychiatrists. One of them was Owen A.R. Berkeley Hill, famous for his work at the

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Mental Hospital. In the same year, Bose wrote to Freud in Vienna. Freud was pleased that his ideas had spread to such a far-off land and asked Bose to write to

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, then President of the

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, for membership of that body. Bose did so and the Indian Psychoanalytic Society, with Bose as president (a position he held until his death in 1953) became a full-fledged member of the international psychoanalytic community.Sudhir Kakar, 'India', in''International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis''
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The review of the Indian Psychoanalytic Society is called '' Samiksha'' and its first edition appeared in 1947.

Works

* ''Concept of Repression. By Girindrashekhar Bose''. Published by G. Bose, 14 Parsi Bagan, Calcutta, India. 1921. 223 pp. Rs. 10/ net.Review
''Psychoanalytic Review'' 9:104 (1922) * (with

and others) ''Glossary for the use of translators of psycho-analytic works'', 1926 * *Bose, Girindrasekhar. (1933). "A New Theory of Mental Life". ''Indian Journal of Psychology'', 37-157.

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*Hartnack, Christiane. (1990). "

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on Freud's Desk:Psychoanalysis in Colonial India". ''

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'', 57 (4), 921-949. *Hartnack, Christiane. (2003)
"Freud on Garuda's Wings - Psychoanalysis in Colonial India"
''IIAS Newsletter'' #30, March 2003 *Indian Psychoanalytical Society. (1955). ''Samiksa'' Special Issue on Bose. * *Kakar, Sudhir. (1997). "Encounters of the psychological kind: Freud, Jung and India" in ''Culture and Psyche: Psychoanalysis and India''. New York, Psyche Press. * *Nandy, Ashis. 'The savage Freud: the first non-Western psychoanalyst and the politics of secret selves in colonial India', in ''The savage Freud and other essays on possible and retrievable selves'', Princeton University Press, 1995, pp. 81–144

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BiographyBose-Freud correspondence.About IPA, see "How did the IPA begin?"Books by Girindrasekhar Bose
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