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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

Chainsaw

My wife’s birthday is coming up, and the other day (jokingly) I asked her, “You want a chainsaw for your birthday?” “You know, the chainsaw was originally made to widen the birth Canal.” She replied. I thought she was joking and I said, “That makes sense.” “I’m serious.

TGL - 011 Negativity & The Death Drive

INTRO: In this episode of The Gorman Limit, Neil talks more about the concepts of negativity as lack (rather than as bad) and the death drive. This episode is a continuation of Neil's work teaching a seminar on doing clinical work with individuals. CONTENT: 0:00 - 0:

Newsletter v.3.4 | Bear & Ulysses

Hello all, Normally, I write this newsletter in little bits over the week, but this week I did not have nay extra time to do it. I’m currently taking a break from prepping a class to write this. It is a short one. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Podcasts: Episode 010 of The

How TGL listening looks as as graph

I saw this when I looked at the analytics for TGL [https://gorman.transistor.fm/] today. In Bebuaray of 2021 I used some of the episodes of TGL as supplemental material for a class I was teaching. I think that explains why the desktop browser heat so high during that

TGL 010 - It's All about Jouissance

Intro: In this episode of TGL, Neil starts to talk about the concept of Jouissance (i.e., enjoyment). The claim Neil makes is that understanding the way jouissance functions in our lives is essential to understanding why people do the things they do, in particular when those things don'

Working on something big

Below are three screen shots of a the chaos that is the work in progress....

Newsletter v.3.3 | Getting Ready for the Seminar

Hello everyone, Things are busy. (Big surprise, right?) I’m getting ready to teach a seminar on doing psychotherapeutic/psychoanalytic work with individuals in the modern-day mental health systems. The seminar will last for eight weeks, and the first text the group will be reading and discussing is The Ethics

More Great Blog Posts from This Weekend 5/8/21

From Atlas Minor [https://atlasminor.com/southbound/]: > Somewhere between Knoxville and Chattanooga, we ate bún xào in a parking lot. Then we hacked our way through Atlanta traffic, its tailgaters and stunt drivers declaring their political opinions on their bumpers. On a sleepy Sunday street in Macon, I ate

Great bits from blogs this weekend 5/8/21

From Disquiet [https://disquiet.com/2021/05/08/twitter-com-disquiet-theater-anxiety-and-media-ambience/] : > Netflix needs a third button for “I really enjoyed this and I never want to watch it or anything like it anytime again in the near or foreseeable future.” Pondering what that hand gesture is. So true!

The Reason for Going into Analysis (Pt. 2)

Continuing to riff on why someone might go into analysis, I want to highlight something the Jacques-Alain Miller [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Alain_Miller] says in the video below. At the 4:40 point of the video, JAM says, “At the root of all knowledge, you have a practice.