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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

Miller on Desire v. Drive

I wrote a bit about this earlier [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/drive-v-instincts-in-psychoanalytic-theory/], and today I'm going to return to the short text The Invention of the Partner [https://www.thelacanianreviews.com/the-invention-of-the-partner/], Jacques-Alain Miller [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Alain_Miller]. What I want to look at this

Drive v. Instincts in Psychoanalytic Theory

Much has been made about the stupid decision to translate instinkt and Trieb into the English word instinct. One of the main effects is this translation error is that it creates and maintains a misunderstanding of what drive is and what makes drive different from instincts. In The Invention of

Montaigne | The Essays, Book II, Essay 1.

I've been kind of passively reading the Complete Essays of Michel de Montaigne [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/montaigne/]. I found this bit to be very in line with the psychoanalytic idea of the unconscious contradictory subjectivity being more powerful than our conscious attempts to adhere to a

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◉ Newsletter v.4.7 | Before You Talk to Me About "Being in the Moment"

Hello from the American Midwest. Having little kids changes the way time works. One of the effects of having two little kids is that I spend far more time "in the moment," paying close attention to what my kids are doing. This is radically different than my life

Durable Unconcious v. Transient Consciousness

More from the essay Dora by Janet Malcolm [https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Janet+Malcolm&crid=13WSY105TB697&sprefix=janet+malcolm%2Caps%2C100&ref=nb_sb_noss_1] , the first essay in The Purloined Clinic [https://www.amazon.com/Purloined-Clinic-Selected-Writings/dp/0679748105/ref=sr_1_1?crid=

Intellectual Life as Specialized Craftsmanship

From a New York Magazine profile on Adam Tooze [https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/adam-tooze-profile.html], where the years Tooze spent at university are described. > With its entrenched traditions and exacting, unquestionable standards, the Cambridge approach to pedagogy makes intellectual life a kind of specialized craftsmanship. After I read

The End of Analysis | Making Nonsense of Our Neurosis

The quote below appears in the essay Dora by Janet Malcolm [https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Janet+Malcolm&crid=13WSY105TB697&sprefix=janet+malcolm%2Caps%2C100&ref=nb_sb_noss_1] , which is the first essay in The Purloined Clinic [https://www.amazon.com/Purloined-Clinic-Selected-Writings/dp/0679748105/

Some Notes on Algorithms | For a Presentation I'll Give Next Month

I'm working on a short presentation that I'll give next month at the monthly member's meeting of the Lacanian Compass [https://www.lacaniancompass.com/]. The point of the presentation will be to present a potential new discourse which I'm calling the discourse

Making Sentences

I've been writing every day for some time now. Be that as it may, I don't have a massive amount of writing done. The bit of text [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/something-went-wrong/] I sent out/posted about my experience of being a kid when the Challenger