Biswas Santanu
Int J Psychoanal. 2003 Jun;84(Pt 3):717-32. doi: 10.1516/002075703766644931.
The paper draws our attention to the Indian poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore's notion of psychoanalysis. Focusing on the period between 1926 and his death in 1941, during which Tagore had not only met Freud but had also spoken to several persons on psychoanalysis, the author has unearthed a mass of archival material, primarily in Bengali, and translated most of it into English for the first time, in order to show how Tagore's opinion regarding Freudian thought gradually changed from severe criticism and a near complete rejection to appreciation, especially of its good use in literature and literary criticism. The author has also identified a number of literary works, both prose and verse, from the final years of Tagore's life and tried to document the extent of influence of Freudian thought on their composition. In short, the author explores a significant interdisciplinary area that has not been looked into either in India or abroad.
这篇论文让我们关注到印度诗人兼哲学家罗宾德拉纳特·泰戈尔的精神分析观念。作者聚焦于1926年至1941年他去世这段时期，在此期间泰戈尔不仅见过弗洛伊德，还与多位人士探讨过精神分析，作者挖掘出了大量主要为孟加拉语的档案材料，并首次将其中大部分翻译成英文，以展示泰戈尔对弗洛伊德思想的看法是如何从严厉批评和几乎完全拒斥逐渐转变为欣赏的，尤其是欣赏其在文学和文学批评中的良好运用。作者还找出了泰戈尔晚年创作的一些文学作品，包括散文和诗歌，并试图记录弗洛伊德思想对其创作的影响程度。简而言之，作者探索了一个在印度和国外都未曾被研究过的重要跨学科领域。
