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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-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,

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)