Lobh : Ostwitter Antarale by Khorshed Alam [Hardcover]

Greed is intertwined with human life. However we imagine the world, the role of greed is all-encompassing. Wherever human beings and human flaws are considered, greed plays a consequential role. For some unknown reason, humans remain unsatisfied in this world. Despite being the most intellectually advanced species, why does this happen? Over the ages, wise and learned individuals have sought to answer such questions. Perhaps within these answers lies the secret of the universe. From humanity's thirst for fulfillment has emerged a deep interest in knowledge, an insatiable curiosity to understand. But when this interest becomes subservient to sterile knowledge, as in the case of Faust, the human world begins to collapse. Faust declared: "Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before." There is no end to the explanations and analyses surrounding this deeply rooted instinct in the human psyche. For it is not only the individual—it is through this instinct that we try to understand mass psychology, and the various dynamics of society and the state. Essayist and researcher Khurshid Alam has presented a theoretical explanation of this instinct within the individual psyche in this book. At the same time, he explores how greed has been depicted in myths and literature. A book written from a psychoanalytic perspective like this is quite unique in the Bengali language.