Miller's The Unconscious & the Speaking Body
I’ve been thinking about a bunch: How is the practice of psychoanalysis today different than it was in the past?
Neil Gorman
TGL-001 The Pilot Episode...
Intro:
This is episode 001 of The Gorman Limit (TGL), a podcast done by Neil Gorman
(DSW, LCSW) where he thinks out loud & in public in an attempt to expand the
limit of what he knows.
Content:
This episode explains the reasons behind the making of TGL.
From78 - S1.E009 | Jason from the Regrettable Century
Intro:
In this episode of From78, I talk with Jason from The Regrettable Century, a fellow Podcrade from the Lost Horizon's Network. We talk about our lives and our experiences as we have moved through time. The conversation gets into putting down roots v. drifting, fear of death,
Master Signifiers & Adolescent Identity
Every year I teach a class on doing psychotherapy with adolescents. I’m not
teaching the class this summer, but recently I read Lacan’s short paper On
Freud’s “Trieb” and the Psychoanalyst’s Desire in the Écrits
[https://www.amazon.com/Ecrits-Complete-English-Jacques-Lacan/dp/0393329259],
and it put the
Some Thoughts on the Real
The real is something that is a profound truth that has a traumatic impact on those who are exposed to it. An example of this is the truth the concepts of nothingness that is the heat death of the universe, another is the idea of infinite non-existence.
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The real:
One of the most interesting concepts in Lacanian psychoanalysis is the concept
of the real. Perhaps one of the reasons this concept is so interesting is
because it is outside f the imaginary and the symbolic, and that makes something
we can’t ever really explain in the
What is S2 in the four discourses?
Last week I covered S1
[https://neil.substack.com/p/what-is-s1-win-the-four-discourses], and this week
I’ll move onto S2. This will leave $ and a, which future editions of the
newsletter will get into.
REVIEW:
S1 = The master signifier which is an empty signifier. The master signifier is
the signifier that
What is S1 w/in the four discourses?
THE SYMBOLS:
To understand Lacan’s four discourses I think it is useful to have an idea of
what the four symbols he will use in all four of the discourses mean. However,
providing a key of this sort is not easy. The main reason that it is difficult
is
Capitalism & The Death Drive
Capitalism & Psychoanalysis:
I find that it is difficult to have a serious conversation about the death drive
with non-psychoanalytic people. Be that as it may, I recently had an interesting
person with a non-psychoanalytic clinician about the death drive, and the
conversation was good!
During the conversation I said: