Fadi Abou-Rihan - publications/papers

Alongside my clinical practice, I have preesnted and published a number of texts. The topics covered include psychotherapy and psychoanalysis (clinical and theoretical), sexuality (theories and politics), and a smattering of related issues and concerns.

The following is a partial list of the more recent ones:

"Deleuze and Guattari: A Psychoanalytic Itinerary"
London and New York: Continuum Books (forthcoming in 2008). More info is available here (for Canada & the US) and here for the UK.
"Antigone Unclaimed"
Prefix Photo 15(2007):73-5.
"Under the Sign of Nemesis"
The Locus of Tragedy University of Antwerp; 2006
"Desirand: The Psychoanalytic Legacies of Deleuze and Guattari"
Annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy York University; 2006
"From Tears to Laughter: narrative variations on an all-too-familiar theme"
Telling Stories: Using Narrative in Art, Medicine, and Psychoanalysis Trinity College, University of Toronto; 2004
"On the Comedic Trials of Oedipus"
Discords: The Fifth Annual Conference of the International Social Theory Consortium York University; 2004.
"Conversion Hysteria and Passing Disability"
Contagion and Culture: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Hysteria in Individual and Group Trinity College, University of Toronto; 2003.
"Dining with Freud"
St Michael's College, University of Toronto; 2003.
"The Autobiographies of Samuel R. Delany"
Humanities Graduate Program, Memorial University of Newfoundland; 2003
"Demarcations: Pathetic Unfinished Thoughts on a Life by Default"
In Topologies of Trauma: Essays on the Limit of Knowledge and Memory Edited by Linda Belau and Petar Ramadanovic. New York: The Other Press/London: Karnac Books, 2002, pp. 53-60. François Lachance has written a note on this text.
"Untimely Sexuality: Notes from the Unconscious"
Southern Ontario Gay and Lesbian Association of Doctors; 2002.
"Every Word A Verb"
In Les commensaux: When Art Becomes Circumstance Edited by Patrice Loubier and Anne-Marie Ninacs. Montreal: Centre des arts actuels SKOL, 2001. 151-52.
Discussant, "Between Tenderness and Passion: Freud, Laplanche, and the Afterwardsness of Adolescence" by Geoffrey Miles
Toronto Psychoanalytic Society; 2001.
"The Fractures of Witnessing: Between Theory and Event"
Testimony and Historical Memory OISE, University of Toronto; 2001.
"Average"
In Things We Do: OutArt 2000 Dublin: Arthouse, 2000. [8-9].
"The Poverty of Winnicott: From Fallacy to Taboo
Taboo or not Taboo? Forbidden Thoughts, Forbidden Acts Joint Conference of the Psychoanalytic Society of the NYU Postdoctoral Program, the Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society, and the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Niagara on the Lake; 2000.
"Psychoanalysis as Re-Parenting?"
Challenges to Orthodoxy Trinity College, University of Toronto; 2000.
"The Inconstancy of Life"
Review of Chu T'ien-wen Notes of a Desolate Man New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Books in Canada 28.7(1999):38-9.
Discussant, "Who's Laughing Now: Returning the Butt" Panel
12th Annual Images Independent Film and Video Festival Toronto; 1999.
"Unwanted History: Quasi-Deleuzian Reflections on Time, Pathos, and Death
Histories of Theory Graduate Centre for Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario; 1998.
"Queer Sites: Tools, Terrains, Theories"
Canadian Review of Comparative Literature special issue on Deleuze, Guattari and the Philosophy of Expression guest edited by Brian Massumi. 24.3 (1997):501-508. Click here for Massumi's "Involuntary Afterword."
"A Psychoanalytic Contribution to an Internet Presence"
McLuhan Scholars Series, McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, University of Toronto; 1997.
"Death Wish: Nomad Theory and the Limits of Deterritorialisation"
Modern Language Association Washington, DC; 1996.
"The Irresponsibilities of Writing Hervé Guibert"
Literature Between Philosophy and Cultural Studies; Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association University of Notre Dame; 1996.
"Travels and Translations: From Tubjee to Queer, and Back Again"
The Academy and Race: Toward A Philosophy of Political Action Villanova University; 1996.
"Silent Scattered Thoughts"
Patheticism Trinity College, Dublin; 1995.
"Queer Marks/Nomadic Difference: Sexuality and the Politics of Race and Ethnicity"
Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 21.1-2 (1994):255-63.
"The Limits of Representation"
Review of Judith Laurence Pastore, ed. Confronting AIDS Through Literature: The Responsibilities of Representation Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993. Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter 21.3 (1994):36-7.
"Fisting Deleuze: A Note on a Note on the History of Philosophy"
Thinking Between Philosophy and Poetry; the 18th Annual Meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature University of Alberta; 1994.
"Hume's (Trans)Sexual Empiricism and Deleuze's Becoming-Woman" (w/ Peter Trnka)
Inter-disciplinary Deleuze/Guattari Colloquium Duke University; 1993.
"Being-Gay/Becoming-Lesbian"
PRE/TEXT: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory 13.3-4 (1992):97-108.