Known for disputing the specifics of Freud's Oedipus complex theory, he has been pointed to by some as an early example of non-Western contestations of Western methodologies.

He sent the thesis to Freud,[3] which led to a correspondence between the two men and to the formation of the Indian Psychoanalytic Society in 1922 in Calcutta.

Of the fifteen original members, nine were college teachers of psychology or philosophy and five belonged to the medical corps of the Indian Army, including two British psychiatrists.

Freud was pleased that his ideas had spread to such a far-off land and asked Bose to write to Ernest Jones, then President of the International Psychoanalytic Association, for membership of that body.

[1][5] The review of the Indian Psychoanalytic Society is called Samiksha[6] and its first edition appeared in 1947.