THE PSYCHOANALYTIC FIELD » Connective 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 …

Fetish

Fadi Abou-Rihan — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:36:14 +0000

It is in terms of this tension that Deleuze and Guattari will understand the fetish, not as an object, a commodity, or a body part; but as the movement, event, and relationship that reverse the connective synthesis and fix the machine as fatefully miraculated, as, in other words, owing its existence to some body without …

Relations

Fadi Abou-Rihan — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:26:10 +0000

My incursion into this bit of intellectual and institutional history helps me situate Anti-Oedipus not only within the psychoanalytic context but also within that of one of the most pressing concerns that have marked the twentieth century. Deleuze and Guattari were by no means impermeable to the pressures and pleasures to take sides in the …

Of Applications – 2

Fadi Abou-Rihan — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:19:21 +0000

I would like to return once again to the question of theory, its practices, its links and dislocations. What is the theory of the body without organs that is being proposed in the second section of Chapter One of Anti-Oedipus? What is its basis? Can one speak of it as having a basis at all? …

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Fadi Abou-Rihan — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:50:46 +0000

In this context, we witness near the closing of the chapter’s first section what might seem like a moment of dialectical abstraction: “desiring-machines make us an organism; but at the heart of this production, within the very production of this production, the body suffers from being organized in this way, from not having some other …

Numbers

Fadi Abou-Rihan — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:10:13 +0000

A machine is never on its own. One (the machine—the author, the infant, the analysand for instance) is not the originary number. A machine is always producing of a flow, of a product. Two (the machine and its flow—author and text, mother and milk, analysand and speech) is not the originary number either. A machine …

Breaking Down

Fadi Abou-Rihan — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 03:18:53 +0000

In the context of a connective synthesis, a machine or a chain of associations works only when it breaks down. It works by breaking down, continually, by having the flow it produces interrupted and consumed by another that is inevitably produced by it. “Breaking down” in the French original is actually “detraquée.” The word suggests …

Connection

Fadi Abou-Rihan — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 13:48:11 +0000

Of the connective synthesis of production (and… and… and…): the chain of free associations is not simply a representation of an underlying dynamic, a metaphor for latent peculiarities, or a symptom of as yet undisclosed conflicts and possibilities. In its vagaries and detours, this chain is a machine whose flow is recorded and consumed by …