Abstract

In this piece I draw on Zizek's writing to discuss sex and sexual politics in India. I use Zizek's psychoanalytic and Marxist pedagogy to problematise the notion of "rights" in the context of capitalism, and to discuss the obsene underbelly of disavowed desire that haunts nationalist mythologies. I use Zizek's writings to argue that identity based struggles must be connected to a broader political vision. Without a larger political will contemporary movements for sexual freedoms risk the production of a safe and saleable Other, a decaf dissident who's body supports rather than ruptures the existing social order