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ABSTRACT
Jungian analyst Henry Abramovitch’s book is a set of meditative essays that seeks to explain the most mysterious moments in the lives of the cultural heroes mentioned in the book’s title. Each chapter begins with the word Why? and addresses a riddle in the subject’s biography. The riddle is partially answered by examining the psychological formation, traumas, transformative insights, and memories that we know about this person’s life and his or her mind. A wide-angle anthropological and comparative perspective is always in evidence, along with the strong impact of Jungian theory.
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David Shulman
DAVID SHULMAN, PhD, is professor emeritus at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. A specialist in South Indian languages and literatures and an aficionado of classical Carnatic music, he was trained in Tamil by John Ralston Marr at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London (PhD 1976). His books include More than Real: A History of the Imagination in South India (Harvard University Press, 2012). Correspondence: [email protected].