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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

Camus on Politics

The following is from Albert Camus's speech in the United States in 1946. The title of the speech was The Human Crisis [https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/4uz1tc/transcript_of_albert_camus_the_human_crisis/] . Camus's words seem relevant today, and they connect to

The Revolution as Semblant

I recorded an episode of the InForm: Podcast [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/tag/inform/]with Jason & Chris from the Regrettable Century [https://regrettablecentury.buzzsprout.com/]earlier today. Part of that conversation was about how revolutionary politics could be what Lacanians call a semblance. I did not have this on

Speaking at the right moment

I've been doing some work to get ready for some teaching I'm going to be doing in the fall. Part of that work leads me to re-read The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Écrits (pp. 671-702 in the English edition)

◉ Newsletter v.4.9 | Sinus Infection Central

Hello from the American Midwest. Let's start this one off with a sickness update. I'm in good cardiovascular shape. My resting heart rate is often under 50 (the range is 48-52). However, I just took a reading at I'm at 61. I say this

Adult Powers

I found this in a post over at Letter of Note, which shows many different bits from letter E.B. White wrote in a letter to Mrs. A. H. Kimball dated 20th December 1954. > As a child I was told that I should be seen and not heard. As

◉ Newsletter v.4.8 | Sickness, Kristeva, Algorithms, & 800+

Hello from the American Midwest. I'm writing this newsletter as I battle some sort of horrendous sickness, which involves a slight fever, chills, all kinds of body aches, and a painful cough that shakes the insides. Two at-home COVID tests have said it is not COVID, but whatever

More on Energetic Pessimism

Yesterday, I wrote about the concept of [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/energetic-pessimist/]energetic pessimism [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/energetic-pessimist/]. Today I want to keep exploring this idea. To do this, I want to look at the author's description of her energetic pessimism. (This is different than the author&

Energetic Pessimist

This is another short burst from the excellent intellectual biography 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+biogaphy+

Kristeva | A Contestatory Intellectual

These words 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=

InForm | On psychoanalysis for people who don't know they can have it

INTRO: On this episode of the InForm: Podcast I talk with psychoanalyst Michael McAndrews who practices out in Colorado. Michael's practice is unique for several reasons. The first is that he provides psychoanalysis to people who normally would not have the ability to afford mental health services. The