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With illustrations from clinical experience in India, this paper discusses the question of the cultural rootedness of psychoanalysis as a therapeutic method and some of the cultural differences, chiefly, the dominance of the theme of "maternal enthrallment," both in Indian cultural imagination and in clinical work with male patients.
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