Introduction

Chapter 1 compares Freud and Bose biographically: their childhoods, early psychoanalytic discoveries, marriages, residences, careers, founding of psychoanalytic movements in Europe and India, respectively, and later years. Freud’s writings on his own life are compared to Bose’s silence about his. The chapter opens discussion of Freud’s relation to his father Jacob and mother Amalia, and Freud’s screen memories about the death of his baby brother Julius when Freud was not yet two. It then goes into the first phase of their correspondence, which centers on a drawing of Freud made sight unseen by an Indian artist and forwarded by Bose, and a photograph of Freud sent by himself that Bose had requested.