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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

Money and Sports

The following is something I started to write some time back, and it has been sitting in my drafts folder. While the info in this might be slightly out of date now, I'm sure it is not too far off. Having said that... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From the Axios AM

Top of Mind 6/16/21- Scale

I've been thinking a lot about how things can go badly when they scale -when they get too big. What got me thinking about this was talking with someone who knows I'm usually on the left regarding the vast majority of issues. This person talked about

InForm | Why Do People Enjoy Hating Freud So Much?

INTRO: In this episode of the InForm Podcast, Neil & Jared explore why people enjoy hating Freud so much. Our arguments are that the education system does a horrible job of presenting Freud's work, an abundance of myths about Freud, Anti-Semitism, and the friend/enemy distinction. We sort

Jourgensen V. Ogre | Or, A Great Story About Blood

Here is a story of why the internet is totally great. The other day I referenced this story I heard as a teenager about Al Jourgensen [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jourgensen](the front-man for a band called Ministry [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_(band)]) and Nivek Ogre

We all have different versions of our self, but

> I do love a man who contains multitudes… especially multitudes who hate each other. What a great line from this post by Austin Kleon [https://austinkleon.com/2021/04/20/a-book-of-words/]. When I read this: It got me thinking about psychoanalysis, and now a one way I think about

Newsletter v.3.7 | The Ministry of Invisible Labor

Hi, And welcome to a super random edition of Newsletter, by me, Neil Gorman. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I’ve even busy working on the tenure dossier, which is due and June 15. I started building the dossier in a crummy mindset: Thinking no matter how much work I put into the process

Newsletter v.3.6 | Invisible Labor & Sundry Other Things

Hi, It is a holiday weekend here in the US (Memorial Day), and I’ve decided to take both Friday and Monday off. This is the first time I’ve taken an extended weekend, where I don’t teach or see patients/analysands, in I actually don’t remember how

Some notes for a talk

I have not goven this talk, not yet. i hope to give it at a conference I will plan and put on ine day.

Newsletter v.3.5 | Don’t be a Centipede!

Hello Newsletter member, Today I just realized that there were a few people who signed up to the newsletter via the old Convert Kit signup page that did not get migrated over to the new version of the newsletter powered by Ghost [https://ghost.org/]. I just moved over those

TGL - 012 | Addendum | More on Jouissance, Death Drive, & Negativity (Lack)

INTRO: This episode of The Gorman Limit is being released very shortly after episode 011. The reason for this is that I thought about the topics I've been riffing on during episodes 010 and 011, and there was more I wanted to say about jouissance, the death drive,