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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

What is The Real || 2

A few weeks back (when the newsletter was still CP), I started to write about the register of the real, and I described four moments in Lacan’s work, where he thinks/speaks/teaches about the real. I then tried to describe how the real was approached in the first

TGL 005 How I lost My Voice & Learned to Listen Better

In this episode of The Gorman Limit, I talk about listening. A lot. About how I learned to listen better when I lost my voice, about what I learned about listening from my dissertation, and about full speech v. empty speech. Intro: 0:00 - 5:38 * Why title the

TGL 004 The Thing about Respect...

Intro 0:00 - 3:20 - Today's podcast is about the concept of respect. - Why people desire it, how they try to get it. - How they fail to get it. - And how they might get better at getting it. Context 3:20 - 13:

Newsletter v.2.1 | CP is now TGL

Hello, If you're receiving this email it is because you're a subscriber to the Complex Praxis Email Newsletter [https://limit.neilgorman.com]. I'm sending this email out through a new back end email newsletter provider. (I hope it works!) The point of this email

TGL-003 If you want control, you tend to get less of it

Warm-up: I talk about waking up early, liking winter, drinking tea… Content: What I want to do in this episode is tell you a story. - A story from early in my career. - One of the most important lessons I learned - It’s a lesson about control… or

TGL-002 Some Unsolicited Advice (for people going into mental health)

Intro: In this episode, Gorman gives some answers to a few questions he gets sacked regularly when he teaches. It aims the questions and their answers at people who want to go into mental health. Content: * What kind of advice would I give people who are going into mental health?

InForm | Does Psychoanalysis Need to be Marginalized? (Pt. 2)

Announcements Below are links to the things we mentioned in the announcements section of the podcast. * Lacanian Ink [https://www.lacan.com/lacink/archive.html] * Lacanian Review [https://www.thelacanianreviews.com/tlr/] * Lacanian Review Online [https://www.thelacanianreviews.com/] (free) * Lacanian Works Exchange [https://www.lacanianworksexchange.net/authors-date-order] (free) The

What is the real || 1

Lacanian Mojo (The real part 1 — Moments): This week, I want to start writing about the real, but I’m 100% positive that I won’t be able to write all of the things I want to write about it. I plan to stretch my writing about the real out

InForm | Does Psychoanalysis Need to be Marginalized? (Pt. 1)

Intro: On this episode of InForm: Podcast Neil & Jared get into a specific question: Does psychoanalysis need to be marginal? Content: * The Psychoanalysis of Everday Life -- Neil talks about getting rid of stuff, and how streaming services make things less desirable. * Main segment -- We start to talk

A few thought about the imaginary & the symbolic

I get the impression that some people read what Lacanians write about the imaginary and the symbolic. They get the impression that Lacanians think the imaginary and the symbolic are somehow “bad.” That’s wrong. The imaginary and the symbolic are awesome, and they help us. We need them. However,