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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

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&

AM⌭PM | 003

Hi, I'm writing this one mid-day, right at the border of when AM becomes PM. Reason for this: A Friday with a full dance card of things and stuff that need my time and attention. I started to write about how living this way was affecting me yesterday

AM⌭PM | 002

Hello, Welcome to the second edition of AM⌭PM [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/tag/am-pm/], an experimental email newsletter blog sort of thing, written by me --Neil Gorman [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/about-neil/] as part of [S][J][P] [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/]. -◉- AM As I write these

Peng Shuai is missing

From The Skimm today [https://www.theskimm.com/news/2021-11-18-3hriSbBsgxtLzfxPAv3u1y]: > Earlier this month, [Peng Shuai [https://link.theskimm.com/click/25745016.886455/aHR0cHM6Ly9za2ltbXRoLmlzLzMwdmFZWGQ/5bb525872ddf9c50a3ace324B7ec2e60f] ] the Chinese tennis star publicly accused a former top gov official of sexual assault. It’s the first time anyone’s made such an allegation