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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

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.

The Reason to Go into Analysis (Pt. 1)

In her wonder book, The Ethics of Opting Out [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0231180918?tag=neilgorman-20], Mari Ruti [https://www.mari-ruti.com/]states: > In analysis, the exploration of our destiny is more gradual, more self-reflexive. [...] the point is not to obliterate our foundational destiny (or fundamental fantasies) but

What is Transgressive Nowadays?

I read a blog post by Steven Shaviro [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Shaviro] today titled Thoughts on Transgression [http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1755]. Here are some of his thousand my thoughts on his thoughts. > Transgression, like so many other things, has largely been commodified and

Majority Rule?

I read this post [https://modelcitizen.substack.com/p/the-anti-majoritarian-mistake] from Will Wilkinson [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Wilkinson]’s Model Citizen [https://modelcitizen.substack.com/] this morning. It’s a long read, too long I think, but it did make some interesting points about the fight between

Arbitrary Numbers

Saw this when I looked at the numbers for InForm: Podcast this morning. It reminded me of when I’d see my car’s odometer but an arbitrary number, but I would think it was cool because said arbitrarily number was large, or several of the same number in a

Safe Spaces

The Right, The Left, & the Desire for Safe Space I listened to the episode of titled Shame, Safety and Moving Beyond Cancel Culture [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-cancel-culture.html] where Ezra has a conversation withWill Wilkinson [https://modelcitizen.substack.com/] and Natalie Wynn [https://www.

Newsletter v.3.2 | Semester is Over!

Hello members of [S][J][P], I've got a few items of surplus jouissance to offer up to you all in today's newsletter.

Craft

Watching these musicians create this track together is simple and beautiful. You can pre-order the album the track will be on here [https://francescaguccione.bandcamp.com/album/muqataea].

How Father James Martin Writes

Today I got around to reading this post by Austin Kleon [https://austinkleon.com/2021/04/15/writing-as-a-spiritual-practice/] about a James Martin [https://twitter.com/JamesMartinSJ] interview where Martin was asked about how he writes. Kleon points out, > Out of all the interesting subjects they discussed, I think I

New Title Card for InForm: Podcast

After recording, mixing, and editing the InForm: Podcast interview with Todd McGowan [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/inform-045/] I uploaded it to my Transistor.fm [https://transistor.fm]account so I could release it, and when I looked at the InForm Title card I thought... "That's not very