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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

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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

AM ⌭PM | 017

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

Old School Ritual & Sci-Fi? | 12/31/21

I spent some time in my RSS feed reader today, and I read the words below on James A. Reeves's blog [https://atlasminor.com/midnight-mass/]Atlas Minor [https://atlasminor.com/midnight-mass/], where Reeves writes about going to a Catholic Midnight Mass. > I wonder what it would have

The noise of the world | 12/30/21

I read the following in an article titled The Cost of Engaging With the Miserable [https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/twitter-facebook-misery-misinformation/621073/] , by Charlie Warzel [https://www.theatlantic.com/author/charlie-warzel/]. > Every morning, I wake up and grab my doom machine. My phone is a piece

InForm | Interview w/ Peter Rollins

The episode you're about to listen to is a conversation with Peter Rollins, a thinker, writer, podcaster, and community organizer who works at the intersections of psychoanalysis, theology, and philosophy. Before getting started I'd like to say the following: Getting to do this was something that