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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

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.

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