Working on something big
Below are three screen shots of a the chaos that is the work in progress....
Neil Gorman
Newsletter v.3.3 | Getting Ready for the Seminar
Hello everyone,
Things are busy. (Big surprise, right?)
I’m getting ready to teach a seminar on doing psychotherapeutic/psychoanalytic
work with individuals in the modern-day mental health systems. The seminar will
last for eight weeks, and the first text the group will be reading and
discussing is The Ethics
More Great Blog Posts from This Weekend 5/8/21
From Atlas Minor [https://atlasminor.com/southbound/]:
> Somewhere between Knoxville and Chattanooga, we ate bĂşn xĂ o in a parking lot.
Then we hacked our way through Atlanta traffic, its tailgaters and stunt drivers
declaring their political opinions on their bumpers. On a sleepy Sunday street
in Macon, I ate
Great bits from blogs this weekend 5/8/21
From Disquiet
[https://disquiet.com/2021/05/08/twitter-com-disquiet-theater-anxiety-and-media-ambience/]
:
> Netflix needs a third button for “I really enjoyed this and I never want to
watch it or anything like it anytime again in the near or foreseeable future.”
Pondering what that hand gesture is.
So true!
The Reason for Going into Analysis (Pt. 2)
Continuing to riff on why someone might go into analysis, I want to highlight
something the Jacques-Alain Miller
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Alain_Miller] says in the video below.
At the 4:40 point of the video, JAM says, “At the root of all knowledge, you
have a practice.
The Reason to Go into Analysis (Pt. 1)
In her wonder book, The Ethics of Opting Out
[https://www.amazon.com/dp/0231180918?tag=neilgorman-20], Mari Ruti
[https://www.mari-ruti.com/]states:
> In analysis, the exploration of our destiny is more gradual, more
self-reflexive. [...] the point is not to obliterate our foundational destiny
(or fundamental fantasies) but
What is Transgressive Nowadays?
I read a blog post by Steven Shaviro
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Shaviro] today titled Thoughts on
Transgression [http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1755]. Here are some of his
thousand my thoughts on his thoughts.
> Transgression, like so many other things, has largely been commodified and
Majority Rule?
I read this post
[https://modelcitizen.substack.com/p/the-anti-majoritarian-mistake] from Will
Wilkinson [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Wilkinson]’s Model Citizen
[https://modelcitizen.substack.com/] this morning. It’s a long read, too long I
think, but it did make some interesting points about the fight between
Arbitrary Numbers
Saw this when I looked at the numbers for InForm: Podcast this morning. It
reminded me of when I’d see my car’s odometer but an arbitrary number, but I
would think it was cool because said arbitrarily number was large, or several of
the same number in a
Safe Spaces
The Right, The Left, & the Desire for Safe Space
I listened to the episode of  titled Shame, Safety and Moving Beyond Cancel
Culture
[https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-cancel-culture.html]
where Ezra has a conversation withWill Wilkinson
[https://modelcitizen.substack.com/] and Natalie Wynn
[https://www.