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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.

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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,

The Symbolic || in RSI

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

The Imaginary || in RSI

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

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 a person sees this mirror/video image, they might think or say,

InForm | Clinicians v. Analysts Pt. 2

OUTLINE: In this episode, Neil & Jared try a new format for the show: (1) The psychoanalysis of everyday life -- Jared talks about "accidentally" leaving something at work. (2) Clinicians v. Analysts -- We continue our discussion of the difference between clinicians (psychotherapist) and analysts (psychoanalysis). (3)

Pornography creates less of a sexual relationship between people

In last week I wrote about Jacques-Alain Miller’s The Unconscious & the Speaking Body because I think it is a great thing to read if you’re interested in how psychoanalysis is practiced in the here-and-now.

Miller's The Unconscious & the Speaking Body

I’ve been thinking about a bunch: How is the practice of psychoanalysis today different than it was in the past?

TGL-001 The Pilot Episode...

Intro: This is episode 001 of The Gorman Limit (TGL), a podcast done by Neil Gorman (DSW, LCSW) where he thinks out loud & in public in an attempt to expand the limit of what he knows. Content: This episode explains the reasons behind the making of TGL.

From78 - S1.E009 | Jason from the Regrettable Century

Intro: In this episode of From78, I talk with Jason from The Regrettable Century, a fellow Podcrade from the Lost Horizon's Network. We talk about our lives and our experiences as we have moved through time. The conversation gets into putting down roots v. drifting, fear of death,

Master Signifiers & Adolescent Identity

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