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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

Bollas on analyzing our problematic unconscious stuff

From the preface to Christopher Bollas [http://christopherbollas.com/]'s book Meaning and Melancholia: Live in the Age of Bewilderment [http://christopherbollas.com/portfolio/meaning-melancholia-life-age-bewilderment/] . > Any psychological analysis of human behaviour involves us in making judgements about the psychotic and non-psychotic parts of selves, about the homicidal and

Old School Ritual & Sci-Fi? | 12/31/21

I spent some time in my RSS feed reader today, and I read the words below on James A. Reeves's blog [https://atlasminor.com/midnight-mass/]Atlas Minor [https://atlasminor.com/midnight-mass/], where Reeves writes about going to a Catholic Midnight Mass. > I wonder what it would have

The noise of the world | 12/30/21

I read the following in an article titled The Cost of Engaging With the Miserable [https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/twitter-facebook-misery-misinformation/621073/] , by Charlie Warzel [https://www.theatlantic.com/author/charlie-warzel/]. > Every morning, I wake up and grab my doom machine. My phone is a piece

InForm | Interview w/ Peter Rollins

The episode you're about to listen to is a conversation with Peter Rollins, a thinker, writer, podcaster, and community organizer who works at the intersections of psychoanalysis, theology, and philosophy. Before getting started I'd like to say the following: Getting to do this was something that

⌬ Lecture № 11 | Object Relations: An Overview

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One of the first jobs I had in mental health was working in a substance abuse treatment center. There are different kinds of substance abuse treatment centers. Some are like luxury spas; the people you find being treated there are members of wealthy families. The treatment center I worked in

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I felt like I needed to change things up a bit, so rather than writing first thing in the morning, I did other things. One of the things I did was take a walk in the cold. It was 14 degrees Fahrenheit-10 Celsius, and there was a wind. The walk

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Very early It is 5:27 am as I write this. I've managed to make my body get out of a warm bed. I can look out the window and see Christmas lights on homes, which is a pleasant thing to look at as my body adjusts to

⚯ Reading Notes | Craig Mod: Roden 063

Hi, Usually, I don't send out my ⚯ Reading Notes as an email; I just post them to [S][J][P] in the Reading Notes section [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/tag/reading-notes/]. However, I'm sending this one out to make anyone who reads these missives aware that

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I've had this idea for an essay. I'll be trying to do something, and my thoughts will wander back to this idea. I've tried to ignore it because I've got too much to do, and I'm already working on one