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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

Some Thoughts on the Real

The real is something that is a profound truth that has a traumatic impact on those who are exposed to it. An example of this is the truth the concepts of nothingness that is the heat death of the universe, another is the idea of infinite non-existence.

What is S2 in the four discourses?

Last week I covered S1 [https://neil.substack.com/p/what-is-s1-win-the-four-discourses], and this week I’ll move onto S2. This will leave $ and a, which future editions of the newsletter will get into. REVIEW: S1 = The master signifier which is an empty signifier. The master signifier is the signifier that

What is S1 w/in the four discourses?

THE SYMBOLS: To understand Lacan’s four discourses I think it is useful to have an idea of what the four symbols he will use in all four of the discourses mean. However, providing a key of this sort is not easy. The main reason that it is difficult is

Capitalism & The Death Drive

Capitalism & Psychoanalysis: I find that it is difficult to have a serious conversation about the death drive with non-psychoanalytic people. Be that as it may, I recently had an interesting person with a non-psychoanalytic clinician about the death drive, and the conversation was good! During the conversation I said:

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