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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

[Suggestion] Walk Notes

I recently found the Walk Notes (RSS) blog via the People & Blogs interview with Phil Gyford. I've been reading the posts between various other things I'm doing, and I really like them! From the Walk Notes About page: These are my notes from each week.

Pro wrestling & jouissance

From an article on Wrestling Inc. on the work that Al Snow is doing at OVW: I'm also doing something here that no one's teaching anymore. I'm teaching the art of how to work a professional wrestling match — not wrestle a professional wrestling match

Compasses, then & now

On the back of Desire and Its Interpretations: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VI Jacques-Alain Miller writes: Up until recently, all of our compasses, no matter how varied, pointed in the same direction: toward the Father [the Law]. We considered the patriarch to be an anthropological invariant. His decline

Living in the jackpot

From this post on disquiet: ▰ CLONE WARS: “Your group should set up a password for situations where you need to confirm identities over the phone. Let’s say it’s ‘raspberry beret.’ If you get a call from a loved one in trouble, you can say, ‘Look, there are scams,

QTS-012 | Minimalism & desire

In her post titled Don't make simplicity complicated, Clare Devlin writes: Anything taken to the extreme can be complicated. And simplicity is no exception. Minimalism is, I think, about not being tormented by the insatiability of desire. However, the desire to become more minimal can become as distracting

◉ [S][J][P] Newsletter | Time really is the most valuable thing

Well hi there, It has been a very busy week for me. Lots got done. At one point in the middle of the week, I randomly started to think about this scene from my favorite TV show of all time: Twin Peaks. Watching this now makes me think that David

The fantasy of an evil Other

Writing in The Atlantic, David Brooks focuses on a turn in how people “self-identified” and calls our attention to the following: Sometime around 1970, the American personality changed. In prior decades, people tended to define themselves according to the social roles they played: I’m a farmer, teacher, housewife, priest.

QTS-011 | Ticket

Contents: In this episode of QTS, I talk about getting a $233 ticket for touching my phone at a red light, my dislike of big things (government and business), and how a fine like this could affect people who are not in my position. Referenced: The Unthanks (Spotify, Apple Music)

QTS-010 | Dryer Noise

Content: In this episode, I talk about how the quotidian is an important formative force in our lives, although it is often not seen as very formative compared to the big events in our lives. Sound: This episode sounds different than prior episodes because (again) I'm trying out

Not everything is an interpretation

In a text titled, What words, What Body?, Anne Lysy writes,[1] There are words that carry some weight, and others that don't. That's what we call interpretation,[2]" Lacan said in Nice at the end of 1974. The whole question is: how to they