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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 009 The Moment Before

Intro 0:00 - 8:15 - Ezra Klein Interviews George Saunders [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/19/podcasts/ezra-klein-show-george-saunders-transcript.html] about A Swim in the Pond in the Rain [https://www.georgesaundersbooks.com/books/a-swim-in-a-pond-in-the-rain-hc]. - They talk about being parents - They talk about moments of crisis,

TGL 008 Some Thoughts on Non-Defensiveness

Intro: 0:00-9:55 - Hi - I've got another kid now - Live is crazy but also wonderful Story: 9:55-28:15 - Who, what, when, where, why - The kids of kids I was working with at this point in my life - Curse word warning!

Newsleter v.2.4 | Father x2

Hello, Last week I did not write an edition of TGL, and the reason for that is something I’m excited to share with you (the small community of people who read these words on a somewhat regular basis). My partner and I are now the parents of two children.

TGL 007 "I want to help people"

Intro 0:00-9:20 * I teach in a school of social work... * When I ask students, Why are you here? Why are you studying this?” They will usually say, “Because, I want to help people.” * When I follow that up with a question like, “What does that mean?” or “What

Newsletter v.2.2 | From the Dossier

Hello, I'm Neil and this is my email newsletter. With the spring 2021 semester started, I'm very much in the 1,000 MPH club. (By the time this comes out I'll have 50 more classes to teach, but who's counting?) Being in

Newsletter v.2.3 | Week Four Blues

Hi, I'm Neil Gorman, and this is The Gorman Limit [http://thegormanlimit.com]--my weekly email newsletter. I've started to write this edition of the newsletter as I'm going into week four of a sixteen-week semester. Every semester I teach, I begin to feel

TGL 006 Everything that is Embarrassing is also Potentially Hilarious

Intro 0:00 - 6:24 - Headache - The concept for today’s show: How we react when we screw things up Bryan 6:24-14:36 - Being socially awkward in your early 20’s - This dude named Bryan walked into a glass door - Everything that is

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: