Neil Gorman

Along with the imaginary, there is the symbolic, which is comprised of customs, institutions, laws, mores, norms, practices, rituals, rules, traditions, and so on of cultures and societies. The symbolic is the non-natural world, or what we have constructed (Incidentally, thinkers like Derrida have pointed out that what has been

Lacanian Mojo —The Imaginary (the body as it appears in a photo). To understand the imaginary is to understand the way that a person might identify with an image, such as the image they see when they look in a mirror or when they watch a video of themselves. When

To understand the imaginary is to understand the way that a person might identify with an image, such as the image they see when they look in a mirror or when they watch a video of themselves. When a person sees this mirror/video image, they might think or say,

Every year I teach a class on doing psychotherapy with adolescents. I’m not teaching the class this summer, but recently I read Lacan’s short paper On Freud’s “Trieb” and the Psychoanalyst’s Desire in the Écrits [https://www.amazon.com/Ecrits-Complete-English-Jacques-Lacan/dp/0393329259], and it put the

The real: One of the most interesting concepts in Lacanian psychoanalysis is the concept of the real. Perhaps one of the reasons this concept is so interesting is because it is outside f the imaginary and the symbolic, and that makes something we can’t ever really explain in the