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Building on the letters exchanged between Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) and Girindrasekhar Bose (1886-1953) between 1921 and 1937 this paper asks: what happens when Freud and Bose come to dialogue? Do the particularities of the Indian analysand get foregrounded? Does Bose provide Freud Indian case material? Or does Bose mark difference - withrespect to theories of Oedipality and ‘sexuation’? Building further on the works of Kakar (1989), Nandy (1995), Basu (1999), Hartnack (2001) and Hiltebeitel (2018) the paper asks: was Bose forwarding the logic of the ‘Indian psyche’? Or was he also sowing the seeds of an ‘Indian logic’ of the psyche?