Jouissance as Ananda Indian Philosophy,

Jouissance as Ananda seeks to resolve the often-problematic Western concept of the ego by proposing a cross-cultural theory of consciousness that draws on Indian philosophy. Author Ashmita Khasnabish uses the Indian concept of ananda to advance Irigaray's theory of jouissance and offers a re-reading of jouissance from an Indian cross-cultural psychoanalytic point of view.

Ashmita Khasnabish currently teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Acknowledgments

viii

Preface

ix

PART I: THEORY

1

(116)

Jouissance as Ananda (Bliss)

3

(16)

Radha's Jouissance

19

(24)

Body in Transcendance: Jouissance and Kali

43

(28)

Women in the East and Women in the West

71

(20)

The Ascent and Descent: Irigaray and Brennan through Indian Philosophy

91

(26)

PART II: LITERATURE

117

(112)

Jouissance and Ananda in Joyce

119

(26)

Ego and Its Transcendance in Tagore's The King of the Dark Chamber

145

(26)

Is Jouissance Writing or Love?

171

(26)

Love on the Spiritual and the Corporeal Planes in The Mistress of Spices

197

(32)

Bibliography

229

(6)

Index

235

(6)

About the Author

241

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Jouissance as Ananda Indian Philosophy, Feminist Theory, and Literature

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