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Amrita Narayanan: Anachronistic sexuality & women's bodies as a location of 'culture' + Megha Dhiman

Cross-cultural research in psychology suggests that local bodies play a crucial factor in women's experiences of sexual freedom and agency. Drawing from a cohort of upper caste women women who live in India, this talk explores how women's sexual subjectivities are affected by the anxieties with which their families and community imagine them. It is drawn from a data set of women in the birth years 1950-1990. Within this historical time period, I suggest that normal infantile and/adolescent sexuality amongst girls and women was subjected to an intergenerational cultural transmission in which women's sexuality was a community concern. Moving away from a simplistic theory of oppression, this talk articulates some of the possible forms that sexuality can take under cultural and familial conditions, where there is a close proximity between eros and mourning. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Amrita Narayanan grew up in Chennai, India. She trained as a clinical psychologist in the United States, and then returned to India to train as a psychoanalyst. She is the author of In a Rapture of Distress: Women's Sexuality and Modern India (Oxford University Press, 2023). She is the editor of The Parrots of Desire: 3000 years of Erotica in India (Aleph Books, 2018) a collection of poems, short prose and fiction in translation from various Indian languages, linked by her introductory essay on the central themes in Indian erotic literature. She is an essayist for Pha(bu)llus: a cultural history of the Phallus (Harper Collins, 2020). Her essay Ambivalent Subjects: Psychoanalysis, women’s sexuality in India and the writings of Sudhir Kakar was awarded the Taylor and Francis prize for best writing in 2014. She has contributed chapters to Psychoanalysis in the Indian Terroir (Lexington Books, 2018) and the Handbook of Human Development in India (forthcoming from Springer in 2026). Amrita has been a visiting professor in the Department of English at Ashoka University, New Delhi since 2022 prior to which she was a visiting professor at KREA University, Andhra Pradesh. When she is not teaching, she lives and practices in Goa. An Interview: https://notchesblog.com/2024/09/17/in...