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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.

Artificial Analysis

Artificial Analysis

Pilot Episode Neil Gorman, the host of the show, describes two surprising clinical experiences in which different analysands shared details of their psychoanalytic sessions with large language models (ChatGPT and Claude), received interpretations—including Lacanian concepts—and then brought those AI responses back into their sessions, suggesting to the speaker

Interview with Samuel McCormick, Ph.D (The host of Lectures on Lacan)

Interview with Samuel McCormick, Ph.D (The host of Lectures on Lacan)

Show Notes: In this episode of The Speaking Body, Neil speaks with Sam McCormick, professor of communication studies at San Francisco State University and host of Lectures on Lacan. What begins as an interview quickly becomes a wide-ranging conversation about Lacan, teaching, fatherhood, clinical practice, and psychoanalysis as a lived

Judgment v. Noticing in Psychoanalysis

Judgment v. Noticing in Psychoanalysis

Show Notes Neil Gorman hosts a short solo episode of The Speaking Body Podcast, continuing his argument that psychoanalysis is oriented by not knowing, privileging the unknown because it generates desire and questions, unlike other therapies that rely on the practitioner knowing. He extends this by distinguishing judging from noticing:

Psychoanalysis, Science, & Ethnography

Psychoanalysis, Science, & Ethnography

A short solo episode of The Speaking Body Podcast, building on a previous discussion of psychoanalysis as a clinical practice that does not take up the patient’s supposition that the analyst knows the patient’s unconscious, instead offering curiosity and a position of lack of knowledge. * Neil argues this

Psychoanalytic Curiosity & Not Knowing

Psychoanalytic Curiosity & Not Knowing

In this short solo episode of The Speaking Body Podcast, I (Neil Gorman) try a new format and invite listeners to email feedback about whether they like it. I explain a key difference between how psychoanalysis is practiced versus many forms of psychotherapy, coaching, or other helping relationships: when someone

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."