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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

AM⌭PM | 011

When I started writing AM⌭PM, the goal was to write something every day. The simple plan was to write something every morning and write something every evening. I quickly learned that writing in the morning is not a problem. But writing something in the evening is a challenge for

AM⌭PM | 010

The last AM⌭PM I sent out [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/am-pm-009/]was a mess. It had spelling errors in it! I'm embarrassed. This may be some ad hoc reasoning: I wrote AM⌭PM | 009 [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/am-pm-009/] on a Saturday. I usually don't

AM⌭PM | 009

Early My family and I are staying at my in-law's lake house, which is a beautiful place. I woke up at about 5:45 am today and started to write at 6:07 am. Soon other people will wake up. The plan is to make pancakes. I'

Experiments

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I like to try out different ways of writing & podcasting in a serial format. Below are links to my experiments. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Text: * AM⌭PM [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/tag/am-pm/] - Written during the week. I tend to write in the morning then again in the evening. * ◎ Drafts

AM⌭PM | 008

I'm writing this mid-afternoon, the day after Thanksgiving. After breakfast, my oldest son (2.5 years old) and I started to brink up Christmas decorations from our basement. Then we spent time getting our (fake) tree up and decorating it with the rest of the family. As we

AM⌭PM | 007

Early in the morning I started to write this at 5:31 am. I have not used an alarm very much for the better part of the past two and a half years. This is because small children, who are often allowed (and encouraged!) to take naps during the day,

AM⌭PM | 006

The AM I woke up at 4:45 am today, which is earlier than I usually do. Just woke up. I tried to get back to sleep, but my body wanted to be awake. I drank some water, then some coffee, looked to the east, and watched the sky start

AM⌭PM | 005

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's AM/PM is a cross post of the first edition of Is that Poop On Your Shirt (ITPOYS), another email newsletter I'm going to put out for 12 issues. I've never written anything like this before, so I'm not sure

AM⌭PM | 004

...It takes me a long time to get going in the morning. When I woke up, I would move slowly and not think clearly for at least an hour...

⚯ Reading Notes | Mental Health & The Social order

> [M]ental health is part, a subcategory, of the set of the public order. > There is no other definition for mental health than that of public order. [...] Mental heal [is] defined, then, by reference to [the] public order. Mental health works to maintain the social order. Psychoanalysts don&