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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

Fashion Neurosis

I’ve been listening to the podcast Fashion Neurosis. It was made by Bella Freud, the daughter of the painter Lucian Freud and the great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud. The concept is that she has people come to her office, lay down on her couch, and talk to her about clothing.

Ai can be funny & creative, eh?

From WIRED’s Brian Barrett ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw Here’s a nice little distraction from your workday: Head to Google, type in any made-up phrase, add the word “meaning,” and search. Behold! Google’s AI Overviews will not only

Checking in

8:35 am CT I've got a few in-person meetings this morning, which are closer to my kid's school than my house. After dropping the kids off, I grabbed a cold brew at a small local non-chain cafe. They had just baked some cookies that smelled

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.