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Neil Gorman

Neil Gorman

Near Chicago

Neil Gorman is a practicing Lacanian analyst, member of the Lacanian Compass, the New Lacanian School (NLS), the World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP), a maker of podcasts, newsletters, & other sundry things.

On Transference

On Transference

(S1E006) Episode 6 – Transference: What is transference, really? Is it a bond, a projection, a repetition — or something more structural? In this episode, Neil Gorman and Isolda Alvarez explore transference from a Lacanian orientation: the analyst as function rather than person, the subject supposed to know, unconscious certainty, and the

Speaking Body's Intro Music

Speaking Body's Intro Music

The intro music I use for the Speaking Body Podcast is something I threw together in Logic Pro. If anyone would like to listen to the track in its entirety, here it is. Thresholds final0:00/214.0561× P.S. nonseuch nemo is the name of my "band."

Experience

Experience

S1-E005 Neil and Isolda reunite after months away from podcasting to discuss psychoanalysis as an experience rather than an intellectual exercise. * They note that many people first encounter psychoanalysis through university and reading Freud, Lacan, and other theorists, but argue that reading cannot substitute for presenting oneself as an analysand.

New Podcast

New Podcast

Welcome to Speaking Body A website, podcast, newsletter, and (occasional) video series where I discuss psychoanalysis through a Lacanian orientation, treating it not as a closed-off, fancy-book-learning kind of theory but as a living set of ideas and practices that affect the body, symptoms, desires, impasses, and modes of jouissance

Year end thoughts

Year end thoughts

Part I The end of 2025 is rapidly approaching; it's cold outside here in the American Midwest, and I find myself doing a kind of typical (for me) end-of-the-year thinking. This is the kind of thinking that is both backward-looking and forward-looking, where I reflect on the year

Self-awareness is good, but…

Self-awareness is good, but…

From What Sam Shepard Couldn’t Outrun in The Atlantic, By Michael O’Donnell. Self-awareness will take a man a long way, off setting his pride and blunting his tendency to become ridiculous. [Yet] Knowing who you are does not mean knowing what to do. Yeah.

Paul Kingsnorth's Four Ps

Paul Kingsnorth's Four Ps

From a post by Paul Kingsnorth on his Substack. A culture is not the same as a civilization. The latter is built from the top-down, by the use of coercive power. The former emerges from the bottom-up, from a combination of what I call the Four Ps: people, place, prayer