THE PSYCHOANALYTIC FIELD » Conjunctive Synthesis

Affect-Time

Fadi Abou-Rihan — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 11:09:18 +0000

This is the text of my presentation at the recent meeting of the ASCP at the University of Queensland, Brisbane. Keywords: subjectivity, time, affect, love Affect-Time I take my cue from Deleuze and Guattari’s conjunctive synthesis, “ah, so that’s what it is, that’s who I am!” (Anti-Oedipus, 16-22), the synthesis that grounds the subject in …

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Fadi Abou-Rihan — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:38:50 +0000

One of the most striking qualities of the Deleuze-Guattarian schema is its trinitarian structure: production, recording, and consumption; machine, body without organs, and subject; paranoid, miraculating, and celibate; connective, disjunctive, and conjunctive; and, finally, delirium, hallucination, and experience. The question that presents itself at this point is whether such a schema is but the latest …

Subjects-Insights

Fadi Abou-Rihan — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:14:35 +0000

One of the main controversies in the history of the psychoanalytic movement has coalesced around the meaning and relevance of insight as a clinical category. A divide has often separated a more classic epistemic orientation from a concern for the analysand’s affective well being which, supposedly, may or may not have much to do with …

Subjects-2

Fadi Abou-Rihan — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:51:25 +0000

In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the psychoanalysis with which Deleuze and Guattari were most suffused, jouissance has come to hold pride of place amongst the categories and constructs. Jouissance is neither pleasure nor enjoyment (this is yet another one of those distinctions the translators seem to have completely missed); it is what goes beyond either of these …

Subjects

Fadi Abou-Rihan — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:18:21 +0000

Keeping in mind the initial definition of process as production, recording, and consumption, a third synthesis is invariably at work, a synthesis of consumption that belongs to the “subject,” a “subject” that is produced by a recording and that defines itself in terms of the recording it consumes. How could a recording produce a subject? …