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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

Jouissance v. Desire

The distinction I've been continuing to do work/research for something where I'm going to need to spend some tie • Desire is structured by lack—it’s metonymic, always pointing toward an object that stands in for another. It’s inherently deferred, tied to the future,

Two Types of Jouissance & Desire

I've been doing some preliminary work and research for a writing project. Part of this work has involved trying to formalize and articulate the distinctions between., Other jouissance, phallic jouissance, and desire. Here is a working hypothesis: * Desire is how the subject relates to what is lost through

Morning light through frosted glass

Claude.ai's Mistake in Linking Desire with the Imaginary

As I said in my last post, I'm experimenting with talking to Claude.ai and ChatGPT about psychoanalysis. Recently, I've been discussing jouissance, desire, and love with these LLMs. I saw that Claude.ai formulated was desire as imaginary, jouissance as real, and love as a

Claude AI on Jouissance, Desire, & Love

I've been experimenting by engaging both Claude.ai and ChatGPT in discussions about Lacanian theory and practice. For the past few days, I've been talking with both of these LLMs about jouissance, desire, and love. Some of the things they have said about how these three

Ice in the Window

This window has a piped seal. Today, it is so cold the moisture inside the pain of glass froze.

From78 S2.E018

Nick Cave, Loss, & Calsification Referenced in this episode: * The Read Hand Files * Nick Cave (Wikipedia) * Faith, Hope, & Carnage (Amazon) * Freud Morning in Melancholia (Wikipedia)

Repetition, return, & connections becoming clear

A paragraph I enjoyed a lot from Craig Mod's TBOT. Had you told us back then, that the key to it all lay and deliberate repetition, we would have never believed you. But it's true. It's through re-walking that I've come to

TBOT: Good Sentences

Today, my copy of Things Become Other Things (TBOT for short), by Craig Mod arrived. I just read the preface, and found these sentences that I really liked: Folks here harbored their own sense of decay. The world all goin' sideways, she said, and don't know if

AI & Abduction

Earlier, I posted about this earlier today, but here are some more really interesting observations from Peter Coy's essay on AI in the (paywalled) New York Times opinion section on how AI uses a process called abduction when it produces responses to what we ask it/prompt it