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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.

Rachel Cusk: The Drift of Language

When I listen to podcasts, I use the Castro app. One of the reasons I use this, as opposed to one of the other many podcast apps, is that it lets me save clips from individual podcasts directly to my desktop. I've amassed a large number of these

Speaking Freely but Thoughtfully

From this Newyorker profile of Maggie Nelson titled The Many Lives of Maggie Nelson. Speaking freely but thoughtfully is important to Nelson, in part because as a kid she was teased for being a “Chatty Cathy,” and in part because she finds ideas irrepressible and exciting to explore. "Speaking

One Effect of Being an Analysand

After being in analysis for years, I've experienced saying more and less than I intend. I've made slips, I've been arrogant, I've been overly deferential, so on and so forth. Even after several years of this, I'm still surprised when

Scratch_pad_2-6-2022

At the start of the day, I create a text file in iA Writer, and I title it Scratch_pad_the_day's_date. Here are some of the things in today's scratch_pad. “If you read those books carefully and we’ll, and talk about them

Finished | Conversations with Friends, by Sally Rooney

The following is taken from the email newsletter I send out on a mostly weekly basis. If you'd like to get these emails become a FREE Member of [S][J][P]. Become a FREE Member Or, if you'd like to be generous, you could also become

Professional Wrestling & Hysterics

From The Hysteric-Obsessional Dialectic in True Detective by Daniel Tutt. The question the hysteric asks is thus: what kind of object am I for the other? What I like about this quote is how it shows that the hysteric can become interested in the position they are taking up relative

Sally Rooney on the Non-Rapport of Intimate Relationships

I read this article/interview with Sally Rooney today. At one point, the interviewer asks Romney if she thinks the characters in her novels have “healthy relationships” with one any. > [Rooney] pauses. “What does it mean to have a healthy relationship? It’s such a strangely clinical way of