Though Freud never overtly refers to the Mahthe companion volume to Freud's India, Alf Hiltebeitel offers what he calls a "pointillist introduction" to a new theory about the Mah

Alf Hiltebeitel is Professor of Religion at George Washington University. He works mainly on the two Sanskrit epics, the Mah

Acknowledgments
Preface
List of Figures

1. Introduction: The Mahabharata and Freud's "The 'Uncanny"
2. A Short Introduction to Freud's Mahabharata through the Pandavas' Mother Kunti
3. Two Times Three Dead Mother Texts: Dead Mothers and Nascent Goddesses
4. Uncanny Domesticities: Nascent Goddesses in the Baseline Mahabharata
5. Kali and Aravan-Kuttantavar: Rethinking Bose's Oedipus Mother
6. Moses and Monotheism and the Mahabharata: Trauma, Loss of
Memory, and the Return of the Repressed
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