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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

Newsletter v.3.7 | The Ministry of Invisible Labor

Hi, And welcome to a super random edition of Newsletter, by me, Neil Gorman. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I’ve even busy working on the tenure dossier, which is due and June 15. I started building the dossier in a crummy mindset: Thinking no matter how much work I put into the process

Newsletter v.3.6 | Invisible Labor & Sundry Other Things

Hi, It is a holiday weekend here in the US (Memorial Day), and I’ve decided to take both Friday and Monday off. This is the first time I’ve taken an extended weekend, where I don’t teach or see patients/analysands, in I actually don’t remember how

Some notes for a talk

I have not goven this talk, not yet. i hope to give it at a conference I will plan and put on ine day.

Newsletter v.3.5 | Don’t be a Centipede!

Hello Newsletter member, Today I just realized that there were a few people who signed up to the newsletter via the old Convert Kit signup page that did not get migrated over to the new version of the newsletter powered by Ghost [https://ghost.org/]. I just moved over those

TGL - 012 | Addendum | More on Jouissance, Death Drive, & Negativity (Lack)

INTRO: This episode of The Gorman Limit is being released very shortly after episode 011. The reason for this is that I thought about the topics I've been riffing on during episodes 010 and 011, and there was more I wanted to say about jouissance, the death drive,

Chainsaw

My wife’s birthday is coming up, and the other day (jokingly) I asked her, “You want a chainsaw for your birthday?” “You know, the chainsaw was originally made to widen the birth Canal.” She replied. I thought she was joking and I said, “That makes sense.” “I’m serious.

TGL - 011 Negativity & The Death Drive

INTRO: In this episode of The Gorman Limit, Neil talks more about the concepts of negativity as lack (rather than as bad) and the death drive. This episode is a continuation of Neil's work teaching a seminar on doing clinical work with individuals. CONTENT: 0:00 - 0:

Newsletter v.3.4 | Bear & Ulysses

Hello all, Normally, I write this newsletter in little bits over the week, but this week I did not have nay extra time to do it. I’m currently taking a break from prepping a class to write this. It is a short one. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Podcasts: Episode 010 of The

How TGL listening looks as as graph

I saw this when I looked at the analytics for TGL [https://gorman.transistor.fm/] today. In Bebuaray of 2021 I used some of the episodes of TGL as supplemental material for a class I was teaching. I think that explains why the desktop browser heat so high during that

TGL 010 - It's All about Jouissance

Intro: In this episode of TGL, Neil starts to talk about the concept of Jouissance (i.e., enjoyment). The claim Neil makes is that understanding the way jouissance functions in our lives is essential to understanding why people do the things they do, in particular when those things don'