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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

◉ Newsletter v.4.2 | New Audio & Text-Based Content

Hello again from the American Midwest, I've got very little time to write an introduction today, so I'm just going to get into what I've been up to over the past week. -◉- Podcasts: This past week I finally completed (edited and mixed)

The Quotidian Associations №005 | Libido, Object, Jouissance

When I was first learning about psychoanalysis someone told me, "psychoanalysis can be described in lots of different ways, but I think that fundamentally it is the examination and description of the relationship between the subject and their object." -◉- Frued used the concept of libido to

The Quotidian Associations №004 | Reply to a Cliché

When someone says, "The truth will set you free." I say, "Yeah, but only after it has its way with you." -◉- Perhaps the truth is another way of signifying the real. We don't know what the real wants. We don't

The Quotidian Associations №003 | More Knowledge & Truth

Picking up where I left off yesterday regarding the differences between knowledge and truth and riffing a bit more. -◉- People will sometimes ask me some version of, "What is the difference between psychoanalysis and psychotherapy?" They start in the same way: A patient comes to a

InForm | Psychoanalytic Politics w/ Jason & Chris from the Regrettable Century Pt. 2

In today's episode of the InForm: Podcast Neil covers chapter one of the book Psychoanalytic Politics by Sherry Turkle [http://freudians.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/sherry-turkle-psychoanalytic-politics.pdf] with Chris & Jason from the Regretable Century... And lots of other stuff too. We recorded the episode late at

The Quotidian Associations №002 | Knowlege & Truth

I've been getting ready to teach a class by trying to explain to myself the difference between truth and knowledge from a Lacanian perspective. I've been at it for a bit now, and I want to write down what I believe I've worked out.

The Quotidian Associations №001 | Intro...

I'm going to be starting a new experiment today, which I'm going to call The Quotidian Associations [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/tag/tqa/]. The plan is to make 100 of these short posts about some of the things that I'm thinking about and archive

AM⌭PM | 020

I wrote a newsletter this morning, and right after I hit send, I noticed a typo. This was frustrating, perhaps more frustrating than a typo in a newsletter should be. I fixed the typo on the version of the post that will live here on [S][J][P] [https://www.

Newsletter v.4.1 | Attention

Hello from the American Midwest Last week, I listened to an episode of the Ezra Klein show where Klein interviews Johann Hari [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its-not-your-fault-you-cant-pay-attention-heres-why/id1548604447?i=1000550779064] on the topics of attention and focus. Near the start of the show, Klein said something about how

Newsletters

One of the things I make is email newsletters. I've used different platforms to produce and manage them, and now I use Ghost [https://ghost.io] (i.e., this site) as my combo blogging and email newsletter platform. The newsletter I send does not have a set format,