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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

Some thoughts on teaching about Lacan's Object (petit) a

One of the books I use in a class I'm teaching this semester is The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves [https://www.amazon.com/Examined-Life-Lose-Find-Ourselves/dp/0393349322/ref=sr_1_1?crid=TFUBG95CEF5U&keywords=stephen+grosz+s+the+examined+life&qid=1648554225&

Different Kinds of Revolutionary Movements

Over the past weekend, I've been able to continue my research into the connections/relationships between civilization, the state, and psychoanalysis I found something I think is interesting in an abstract for a chapter in a book [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230250857_7]. > Lacan

◉ Newsletter v.4.6 | The Feminine: A Mode of Jouissance

Hello from the American Midwest, Where I am someone trying to help as many people as I can learn about psychoanalysis as a theory, a clinical practice, and perhaps as a way of being in the world. This work takes up lots of my time, energy, and money. Be that

Random Thing in an Old Notebook

Going through an old notebook, I found the following sentence: > Analysts more than most people set up boundaries and then let people have whatever reaction they want to have to those boundaries. I don’t know if this was something I thought up and then wrote down or if

Validation of Perception with Paranoia

I came across something interesting this morning. > [W]e offer a conceptualization of psychotic states [...] With emphasis on failures of archaic self object ties in the specific function of validation of perception. [1] This quote is from a book by psychoanalysts outside the Lacanian orientation (which is the orientation

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[S][J][P] Announcement | Here We Go...

Hi, If you're reading this right now, you have a FREE membership to [S][J][P]. Today, with lots of trepidation, I'm launching a paid membership program. (I'm seriously worried that people will read this, and zero people will sign up. Be that as

◉ Newsletter v.4.5 | Civilization, the State, & Psychoanalysis

Hello again from the American Midwest I usually start writing this newsletter early in the week and then adding to it bit by bit as the week goes on. This week was jam-packed, and what little downtime I had needed to be downtime (i.e., I needed to not be

Brubaker's Newsletter

From the most recent email newsletter [https://eepurl.us13.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=12703963b24c2d94a368d4082&id=ffaede124d] Ed Brubaker [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Brubaker] sent out. > I'll be honest here, in case it's not evident in my work all the time, I'

The Quotidian Associations №008 | Self Criticism & Self Agrandisment

I've been reading some Derrida [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida] as of late. Whenever I do this, I start to think about things deconstructively [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/derrida/#Dec]. I playfully consider the binary opposition between two related concepts and think about what would