Society and Psychology(Freudian)

Thanks Mr. Muralidharan for the insights. I too believe that Indian epics of centuries older than western insights into psyche is a wealth of information on human psyche. I used to watch, the Mahabhagavatham episode tv seriel on one episode there is a sequel on the King Poundaragan of the place Koundara. He seems to equate himself with God, the names are significant like twisted first alphabets. We see Sree Krishna bhagavan visiting his palace entering into a dialog and ultimately beheading him with his 'chakrayth'. This is is metaphorical to the present plight of psychotics who get to be caught up with maladies like Alzhemers and Parkinsonism two siblings, which Jason Zweig the celebrated Finance author of US in his book on association of brain on investments after traelling around various neuroscience labs has written that the root cause of these maladies is psychosis especially Parkinsonism. The last stage of parkinsonism is Alzheimers. Psychosis is a malady where one thinks with extreame senses and is most of the time like the name mispelt in the story in Bhagavatham upsidedown thinking.

Good article Mr. Mathew.  In this connection, I thought I would like to present to you the ideas of C.G. Jung, who was an eminent Psycho-analyst and the practitioner of "Kunalini Yoga". As early as 1912, in Transformation and Symbols of the Libido, Jung provided psychological interpretations of passages in the Upanishads and the Rig Veda.  While this opened the possibility of a comparison between the practice of analysis and that of yoga, possibly the first explicit comparison was made by F. I. Winter in “The Yoga System and Psychoanalysis.” He contrasted psychoanalysis, as depicted in the work of Freud and Jung, with Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. Before Jung himself took up the subject, his work was already being compared to yoga—and the “new paths in psychology” that he sought to open up since leaving the auspices of the International Psychoanalytical Association promised to be the most fertile crossroads between Eastern and Western approaches. An account of Jung’s encounter with Eastern thought would be incomplete without mention of Count Hermann Keyserling and his School of Wisdom at Darmstadt, which provided a collegiate environment for Jung’s explorations. Keyserling dealt with yoga in his The Travel Diary of a Philosopher, which was a much-acclaimed work. He contended that the new psychology actually represented a rediscovery of what was already known by the ancient Indians: “Indian wisdom is the profoundest which exists. . . . The further we get, themore closely do we approach the views of the Indians. Psychological research confirms, step by step, the assertions contained . . . within the old Indian science of the soul.”