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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 | 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

AM⌭PM | 001

Trying a new process/structure today. In the morning (am) write something. Ideally, before the day gets rolling. (I say "ideally" because I know this will not always be possible.) Then, at the end of the day (pm) write something.

◎ Drafts | An Intermission...

⚯ Reading Notes | Miles Law via David French

In his Third Rail Email Newsletter [https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/the-third-rail/], political commentator David French [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_French_(political_commentator)] says the following: > I’d like to introduce you to an obscure but commonsense statement about human nature. It’s called Miles’s law [https:

Cancelation is a problem, regardless of if it comes from the left or the right

From the Wait, What? [https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/] Newsletter by Molly Jong-Fast [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Jong-Fast] (Part of The Atlantic's new email newsletter program [https://www.theatlantic.com/subscriber-newsletters/].) > Earlier this month, a Hill-HarrisX poll [https://emails.theatlantic.com/c/eJwdUMuOwyAM_JpycwUkJOTAYS_7HzxMYMujIqRV_