Soumitra Basu
Doctor
Articles by Soumitra Basu (114)
The autonomy of experience and the unborn Idea — Freud, Sartre and beyond
By Soumitra Basu - Jan 15, 2019
Classically, psychoanalysis considers that all experiences are rooted in the past. Psychological problems are viewed to arise from unresolved developmental issues or past traumas. The quality of a relationship between two individuals is always regarded in reference to some earlier relationship — a sort of primal absolute, though forgotten. This would mean that no entirely novel, autonomous or irreducible experience would be possible. We would always belong to the past!
Dealing with broken love
By Soumitra Basu - Jan 15, 2019
A broken love is an important issue in counselling. Its genesis lies in the severance of oneness and is experienced vitally as depression or aggression leading to vengeance. Instead of an analytical approach, the passion and anguish of love can be shifted to a new poise of consciousness or a higher paradigm of love.
Apropos astrology and health
By Soumitra Basu - Jan 15, 2018
If programmes and advertisements blurted out through the idiot box are any indication, interest in astrology never seems to wane. People are not only interested to know what calamity can befall them in the future but also what could be the astro-therapies that would guarantee sound health!
Conscious perfection — dignity of the inner being
By Soumitra Basu - Jan 15, 2018
The perfect archetypal representation of each idea in the global cognitive field facilitates a progressive movement towards perfection. In the process, the pursuit of perfection through the cultivation of virtues becomes a sort of personal aasana in one’s spiritual sojourn.
The metaphysical basis for integral health — individual destiny
By Soumitra Basu - Jan 15, 2017
In ordinary life, the human destiny is at first to survive the battle of life and when that has been made secure, the destiny shifts to be in possession of circumstances. In contrast, the higher destiny of mankind is to seek God, have a realisation of God or even identification with God. In the fifth Chapter of The Life Divine titled ‘The Destiny of the Individual’, Sri Aurobindo traces the trajectory of the higher destiny that leads to Godhead.