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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.

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Reading your work the way you read your student's work

From a Creative Independent interview with Joshua Henkin, regarding the drafting/revising process: CI: What is your revision process like? JH: I try to force myself to go all the way through to the end. I feel like big changes at the roots are much better than lots of small

Jared Elwart in the LRO!

My collaborator Jared Elwart had something published at The Lacanian Review Online. The piece is titled A Falling away of Guarantee, and it is about the film Everything Everywhere All At Once and what this film can teach us about psychoanalysis. From the introduction paragraph: Watching the trailers, one gets

Sonicbook: A Parenting Wage?

From the Ezra Klein show: Sex, Abortion, and Feminism, as Seen From the Right: Sex Abortion and Feminism as Seen From the Right The Ezra Klein Show 1h21m43s 1h22m03s 194120:00/0:191× The idea of somehow paying people for the labor they do as parents often comes up on

Sally Rooney on Reacting Against the Dominant Narrative as a Subject

From the City Arts & Lectures with Sally Rooney: Sally Rooney City Arts Lectures 12m56s 14m04s 432340:00/1:071× What I liked about this is that Sally Rooney accurately described what it is to be what Lacanians call a subject. As subjects, we are inconsistent, always working out what

Good Advice on Frist Drafts!

From Warren Ellis's Orbital Operations email newsletter: [T]he first draft was to 1) get it down 2) let it be bad. Seriously, just shaking my head as I wrote it muttering “this is absolute crap.” No-one’s going to see this draft but me. It is not

Sonicbook: Azer Nafisi

From The City Arts & Lectures with Azer Nafisi. Throughout her writing, including works likeReading Lolita in Tehran, Things I’ve Been Silent About, and The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books, Azar Nafisi has explored the transformative powers of books in a world of tyranny. [...] Her newest book,

Rachel Cusk: The Drift of Language

When I listen to podcasts, I use the Castro app. One of the reasons I use this, as opposed to one of the other many podcast apps, is that it lets me save clips from individual podcasts directly to my desktop. I've amassed a large number of these

Speaking Freely but Thoughtfully

From this Newyorker profile of Maggie Nelson titled The Many Lives of Maggie Nelson. Speaking freely but thoughtfully is important to Nelson, in part because as a kid she was teased for being a “Chatty Cathy,” and in part because she finds ideas irrepressible and exciting to explore. "Speaking

One Effect of Being an Analysand

After being in analysis for years, I've experienced saying more and less than I intend. I've made slips, I've been arrogant, I've been overly deferential, so on and so forth. Even after several years of this, I'm still surprised when

Scratch_pad_2-6-2022

At the start of the day, I create a text file in iA Writer, and I title it Scratch_pad_the_day's_date. Here are some of the things in today's scratch_pad. “If you read those books carefully and we’ll, and talk about them