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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.

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Libido & Desire

Very early in Seminar VI: Desire and Its Interpretation, Lacan points out: Libido, [which is] a notion that lies at the heart of psychoanalytic theory, is nothing but the psychical energy of desire (p. 4). He also points out that when a person is defensive, they are often defending themselves

Combining Two Things

From the Paris Review interview with Emmanuel Carrère, speaking about W, or the Memory of Childhood, by Georges Perec. ...the way he uses these two stories—it’s as if he is trying to harness something he isn’t able to say. I have often used that method, combining things

Creating the Conditions

One of the many things I'm reading at the moment is On Getting Better by Adam Phillips. As I read it, the following stood out to me. Phillips quotes Winnicott as saying: [Psychoanalysis] is not just a mater of interpreting the repressed unconscious; it is rather the provision of a

◉ A Say 001 | Hello World

Hi there, When I was young and first became interested in using the web to communicate with others, I played with many early blogging tools. One of the things I remember about all of those tools is the default post (the post that was already there as a kind of

Things & Stuff | 003 "The Other Does Not Exist"

0.0 – Preamble Recently, I've been doing some research/reading the idea of "the lying truth," which I'm going to try to put to use in a paper that I'm writing for the LACK conference that will be taking place in April. I started out reading Psychoanalysis has the Structure

🐺 Encountering the Wolf-Man | 001

Hello 2023, This year I'm starting a few projects that I think could b interesting to the people who read the [S][J][P] Blog and the ◉ Newsletter I send out. One of those projects will be a small in-person study group/reading seminar focused on Freud's From the History

Chè voui?

I'm re-reading The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire (again), and today I read this. This is why the Other's question [_la question_ de l'Aurte] – that comes back to the subject from the place from which he expects an oracular reply– which takes some such form as

Foucault on Art

In her book To Write as if Already Dead, Kate Zambreno quotes Foucault two times. (She may quote him more... I'm not done reading the book. I'm writing this post when I'm about 1/4th though it.) I will propose a game: the year without names. For one year books

Adventures in Wikipedia | Pt. 1

Today, I came across the word heteronym when reading To Write as if Already Dead by Kate Zambreno. I knew I had seen this word before, but I could not remember what it meant. I was reading the book in the kindle app on my iPhone, so I highlighted the

The Imaginary is Ascendant | This has Political Effects

In the argument for Clinical Study Days 15, Thomas Svolos writes: The word or the text is no longer enough, and language now needs an image to go with it, to be linked or connected to the text in the narrative. The image is linked to the imaginary register, and