Girindrasekhar Bose

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Girindrasekhar Bose (1886-1953) was an early 20th century South Asian psychoanalyst. He carried on a twenty-year dialogue with Freud. He is known for disputing the specifics of Freud's Oedipal theory, and has been pointed to by some as an early example of non-Western contestations of Western methodologies.

He was the founder of the Indian Psychoanalytic Society.

He has been written about extensively by Christiane Hartnack, Amit Ranjan Basu and Ashis Nandy, Sudhir kakar, Manasi Kumar, amongst others.