Freud's India: Sigmund Freud and India's First Psychoanalyst Girindrasekhar BoseThe sharp contrast between cultures with a monotheistic paternal deity and those with pluralistic maternal deities is a theme of abiding interest in religious studies. Attempts to understand the implications of these two vast organizing principles for religious life lead to an overwhelmingly diverse set of facts and their meanings. In Freud's India, the companion volume to Freud's Mahs Sigmund Freud and Girindrasekhar Bose. Hiltebeitel examines the