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Neil Gorman

Neil Gorman

Neil Gorman is an assistant professor at the Aurora University School of Social Work, and a practicing Lacanian analyst, and a maker of podcasts, newsletters, & other sundry things.

📍 Near Chicago http://neilgorman.com

Professional Wrestling & Hysterics

From The Hysteric-Obsessional Dialectic in True Detective by Daniel Tutt. The question the hysteric asks is thus: what kind of object am I for the other? What I like about this quote is how it shows that the hysteric can become interested in the position they are taking up relative

Sally Rooney on the Non-Rapport of Intimate Relationships

I read this article/interview with Sally Rooney today. At one point, the interviewer asks Romney if she thinks the characters in her novels have “healthy relationships” with one any. > [Rooney] pauses. “What does it mean to have a healthy relationship? It’s such a strangely clinical way of talking

The Subject v. Ego

More From On the Aim and End of Analysis in the Lacanian School [https://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/on-the-aim-and-end-of-analysis-in-the-lacanian-school/] by Raul Moncayo. > [T]he unconscious, and [the subject], is best described as no-self. Of the three categories of self, ego, and subject, the subject is the one that best captures the

InForm: Podcast | Reading & Watching things with a Psychoanalytic Lens, with Jared Elwart

WARNING: I drop the F-bomb in this episode, and we talk about sex. There is an explicit tag for a reason! INTRO: In this episode of the InForm Podcast, I talk with Jared Elwart about how reading science fiction makes him think about psychoanalysis and how thinking about psychoanalysis influences

Psychoanalysis v. Other forms of Mental Health Treatment

From On the Aim and End of Analysis in the Lacanian School [https://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/on-the-aim-and-end-of-analysis-in-the-lacanian-school/] by Raul Moncayo. Writing about how people will often point to accounts of people who say psychoanalysis did nothing for them except cost them lots of time and money. > What is often overlooked

A Note on Getting Older & Wasted Time

Today is one of those days where I look at the books that I have on my shelves, and the pdf files on my computer's desktop, the ones I’ve read, and the ones that I have not read, and I feel a sort of weight—the weight of all

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on The Northman

I read the following in one of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's substack [https://kareem.substack.com/p/will-the-northman-bring-back-mens?s=r], where he talks about his reaction to the film The Northman. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11138512/] The whole post is worth reading, but this bit stood out to me: > Many years

This week on [S][J][P] | Ex-sist

This week, I will be focusing on a text by J.A. Miller titled Ex-sist, which appeared in The Lacanian Review Issue #7 Get Real. [https://www.amazon.com/Lacanian-Review-Get-Real/dp/1658773225/ref=sr_1_6?crid=2QKJIV67MKETI&keywords=the+lacanian+review&qid=1651500022&sprefix=the+lacanian+review%2Caps%2C80&

Checking In | A list of my preoccupations as of now

This is a list of things that keep coming up in my thoughts. It's informed by my reading, listening, teaching, podcasting, and my engagement with psychoanalysis. Contestatory Intellectual, Rebel, Teacher * The idea of what it means to be an intellectual (i.e., a contestatory intellectual) in these times. This comes

An Example of Honest, Clear, Good Writing

Another great bit of text from Alice Jardine's [https://scholar.harvard.edu/alicejardine/home] At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva [https://www.amazon.com/Risk-Thinking-Intellectual-Biography-Psychoanalytic-ebook/dp/B084GW69DX/ref=sr_1_1?crid=QLZQEPHZLAFK&keywords=an+intellectual+biography+of+julia+kristeva&qid=1649782785&sprefix=an+intellectual+