#lectureonrepeat | The Ethics of Love: Desire, Inheritance, and Survival
“Love is not just something we feel. It is something we learn, inherit, and repeatedly rehearse.”
Love is often imagined as personal and private. Yet it is shaped by histories of care, labour, and survival that long predate any individual relationship. This lecture offers a reflective introduction to thinking about love as a social, psychological, and ethical structure.
Ritika Singh examines being-in-love as an event that reorganises the self. Drawing from feminist psychoanalysis, existential philosophy, decolonial thought, and her clinical practice, she explores how desire is formed through maternal inheritance and how these inheritances continue to shape intimacy, relational labour, and patterns of attachment in the present.
The session introduces concepts such as epidermalisation, interpretive attunement, and proximal rebellion to help name experiences that often remain felt but unspoken in contemporary relationships. It also asks a central question: what does love do to our being, and why do the spaces meant to sustain it so often fail?
Event Details
📅 Saturday, 14 February
🕒 1 PM to 3 PM
📍 The Pint Room, Vasant Vihar
About the Speaker
Ritika Singh is a doctoral candidate at GCAS Dublin and a practising psychotherapist. Her work sits at the intersection of philosophy and psychoanalytic theory, with a focus on maternal affect, caste-inflected domesticity, and the ethics of relational survival. She works clinically with individuals and couples, bringing philosophical inquiry into lived emotional experience.
About Pint of View
Inspired by the Lectures on Tap movement in the US, Pint of View creates informal spaces for serious ideas. It brings together philosophy, science, and art in settings where conversations unfold slowly and learning feels collective rather than instructional.
📌 Note: Alcohol will be served only to guests aged 25 and above. Non-alcoholic options will be available. Attendance implies consent to being filmed for event documentation.
What's included
- 🧠 A philosophical and psychoanalytic exploration of love and intimacy
- 🍺 One beer, mocktail, or coffee on the house
- 💬 Informal interaction with the speaker after the session
What's not
- No reserved seating, come early to get a good spot
- Food’s on you, feel free to eat before or after
Where it is
Address : The Pint Room, D12, Market, above Bank Of India, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi, Delhi 110057, India
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