Papers and Publications

Along with my clinical practice, I have presented and/or published a number of texts. The topics covered include psychoanalysis and psychotherapy (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:

  • “Finding Winnicott” monograph (in progress).
  • “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/New York: Continuum Books (2008/2009).
  • “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.
  • “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 generous 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 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.
  • “Unwanted History: Quasi-Deleuzian Reflections on Time, Pathos, and Death” Histories of Theory Centre for Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario; 1998.
  • “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.Here is 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” in 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 in 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” in PRE/TEXT: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory 13.3-4 (1992):97-108.