Fadi Abou-Rihan, PhD

Alongside my clinical practice, I have presented 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 (the fuller version can be found at my PsychoanalystToronto.com website):

• "Affect-Time" Annual Meeting of the ASCP University of Queensland; 2010.
• "Bodies, Machines, Syntheses: The Inner Realities of Deleuze and Guattari" Centre of Gravity Toronto; 2010. Michael Stone has generously uploaded a taping of this Deleuze and Guattari 101 presentation.

• "Deleuze and Guattari: A Psychoanalytic Itinerary" London and New York: Continuum Books (2008).
• "Why no longer? Review of Jay Lampert's Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy of History" in Symposium 12.2(2008):153-56.
• "Antigone Unclaimed" in Prefix Photo 15(2007):73-5.
• "Under the Sign of Nemesis" The Locus of Tragedy University of Antwerp; 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.
• Discussant, "Between Tenderness and Passion: Freud, Laplanche, and the Afterwardsness of Adolescence" by Geoffrey Miles Toronto Psychoanalytic Society; 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.
• "The Inconstancy of Life" Review of Chu T'ien-wen Notes of a Desolate Man New York: Columbia University Press, 1999 in 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.

• "Queer Sites: Tools, Terrains, Theories" in 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.
• "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.
• "Silent Scattered Thoughts" Patheticism Trinity College, Dublin; 1995.
• "Queer Marks/Nomadic Difference: Sexuality and the Politics of Race and Ethnicity" in Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 21.1-2 (1994):255-63.
• "Being-Gay/Becoming-Lesbian" in PRE/TEXT: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory 13.3-4 (1992):97-108.

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