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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

Would Russia Use Dragnipur?

Today I read this article [https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/putin-kremlin-imperialism-ukraine-american-power/624180/] in The Atlantic by Shadi Hamid [https://www.theatlantic.com/author/shadi-hamid/] . It is, in my opinion, an excellent example of how complex America's possession of power has been since the end of

Isolate Self & Deep Boredom

Another thing from Craig Mod [https://craigmod.com], this time from his Roden newsletter #66 [https://craigmod.com/roden/066/]. > When I set off on my long walks [...] I feel [...] like I’m tapping into [...] the fullest-of-most-fully-realized versions of my “isolate self.” (“Isolate” because the older I get the

Are Phones Spiders?!

Read this in Crag Mod’s Ridgeline newsletter 139 [https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/139/]. > I haven’t slept with a phone near my bed in over a decade. I don’t say that sanctimoniously, it’s just a fact — I don’t let anything internet-connected into bed with me.

◉ Newsletter v.4.3 | What is Happening in Ukraine

This week I've been reading articles, listening to podcasts, and seeing images and videos of what is happening in Ukraine. In the papers, I've seen lots of words about the heroic resistance of the Ukrainians. The text, sounds, and images that show brave people standing up

Manzoor Pashteen Interviewed

I read an interview [https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/02/pakistan-politics-manzoor-pashteen-pashtun-nationalism/] with Manzoor Pashteen [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manzoor_Pashteen] today in Foreign Policy [https://foreignpolicy.com]. There are many parts in the interview that stood out to me, but I want to remember the two below, so I&

The Quotidian Associations №007 | Writing Things

I'm thinking about the text (book?) I want to write. I think about this often. The problem is that the imagined vision of the finished text keeps changing. Be that as is it may, I keep returning to a particular desire: I want to write a text that

The Quotidian Associations № 006| Libidinal Economy

Events that have taken place during the past few days have got me thinking about libidinal economy. Marxists (and other politically interested people) think about political economy. Psychoanalysts think about libidinal economy. -◉- Nowadays, people will often use the term libido as a synonym for sex drive, but I

◉ 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