Neil Gorman
AM⌭PM | 019
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)
AM⌭PM | 018
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