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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

⚯ Reading Notes | Interview with an Alleged Vampire

I read this profile of Joss Whedon [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joss_Whedon] in New York Magazine today. I found a something things in it that I want to remember. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Describing the work of film scholar Jeanine Basinger [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanine_Basinger]: > In one

⚯ Reading Notes | All My Reals, By Gerardo Aranas

What real is at stake in psychoanalysis today? This is the question that is orienting the work that the Lacanian Compass [https://www.lacaniancompass.com] (which I am a member of) is working on now. The work will culminate in the Clinical Study Days 14 [https://www.lacaniancompass.com/csd]

⌬ Lecture № 16 | Lacan, Part I: Imaginary, Symbolic, & Semblants

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One of the things that I've been thinking a lot about is how I would describe the particular combination of social work and psychoanalysis that I'm attempting to enact. For a long time, I've seen these two preoccupations (both of which are my occupations)

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Hello, Today is the first day of a new semester. I'll be teaching four classes of (depending on how many students add or drop the courses) 80-90 students. All the courses are sections of SWK-6521, which I've been making podcast lectures for here [https://www.surplusjouissance.

⌬ Lecture № 14 | Object Relations: Winnicott

⌬ Lecture № 13 | Object Relations: Fairbairn

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I woke up in the middle of the night last night. This happens to me a lot, but I can get back to sleep most of the time. Last night was not one of the "most of the time" times. After tossing and turning for a few hours,

⌬ Lecture № 12| Object Relations: Klein

Bollas on analyzing our problematic unconscious stuff

From the preface to Christopher Bollas [http://christopherbollas.com/]'s book Meaning and Melancholia: Live in the Age of Bewilderment [http://christopherbollas.com/portfolio/meaning-melancholia-life-age-bewilderment/] . > Any psychological analysis of human behaviour involves us in making judgements about the psychotic and non-psychotic parts of selves, about the homicidal and