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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

The Quotidian Associations №004 | Reply to a Cliché

When someone says, "The truth will set you free." I say, "Yeah, but only after it has its way with you." -◉- Perhaps the truth is another way of signifying the real. We don't know what the real wants. We don't

The Quotidian Associations №003 | More Knowledge & Truth

Picking up where I left off yesterday regarding the differences between knowledge and truth and riffing a bit more. -◉- People will sometimes ask me some version of, "What is the difference between psychoanalysis and psychotherapy?" They start in the same way: A patient comes to a

InForm | Psychoanalytic Politics w/ Jason & Chris from the Regrettable Century Pt. 2

In today's episode of the InForm: Podcast Neil covers chapter one of the book Psychoanalytic Politics by Sherry Turkle [http://freudians.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/sherry-turkle-psychoanalytic-politics.pdf] with Chris & Jason from the Regretable Century... And lots of other stuff too. We recorded the episode late at

The Quotidian Associations №002 | Knowlege & Truth

I've been getting ready to teach a class by trying to explain to myself the difference between truth and knowledge from a Lacanian perspective. I've been at it for a bit now, and I want to write down what I believe I've worked out.

The Quotidian Associations №001 | Intro...

I'm going to be starting a new experiment today, which I'm going to call The Quotidian Associations [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/tag/tqa/]. The plan is to make 100 of these short posts about some of the things that I'm thinking about and archive

AM⌭PM | 020

I wrote a newsletter this morning, and right after I hit send, I noticed a typo. This was frustrating, perhaps more frustrating than a typo in a newsletter should be. I fixed the typo on the version of the post that will live here on [S][J][P] [https://www.

Newsletter v.4.1 | Attention

Hello from the American Midwest Last week, I listened to an episode of the Ezra Klein show where Klein interviews Johann Hari [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its-not-your-fault-you-cant-pay-attention-heres-why/id1548604447?i=1000550779064] on the topics of attention and focus. Near the start of the show, Klein said something about how

Newsletters

One of the things I make is email newsletters. I've used different platforms to produce and manage them, and now I use Ghost [https://ghost.io] (i.e., this site) as my combo blogging and email newsletter platform. The newsletter I send does not have a set format,

⚯ Reading Notes | Interview with an Alleged Vampire

I read this profile of Joss Whedon [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joss_Whedon] in New York Magazine today. I found a something things in it that I want to remember. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Describing the work of film scholar Jeanine Basinger [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanine_Basinger]: > In one

⚯ Reading Notes | All My Reals, By Gerardo Aranas

What real is at stake in psychoanalysis today? This is the question that is orienting the work that the Lacanian Compass [https://www.lacaniancompass.com] (which I am a member of) is working on now. The work will culminate in the Clinical Study Days 14 [https://www.lacaniancompass.com/csd]