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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.

◉ Newsletter v.4.6 | The Feminine: A Mode of Jouissance

◉ Newsletter v.4.6 | The Feminine: A Mode of Jouissance

Hello from the American Midwest, Where I am someone trying to help as many people as I can learn about psychoanalysis as a theory, a clinical practice, and perhaps as a way of being in the world. This work takes up lots of my time, energy, and money. Be that

Random Thing in an Old Notebook

Going through an old notebook, I found the following sentence: > Analysts more than most people set up boundaries and then let people have whatever reaction they want to have to those boundaries. I don’t know if this was something I thought up and then wrote down or if

Validation of Perception with Paranoia

I came across something interesting this morning. > [W]e offer a conceptualization of psychotic states [...] With emphasis on failures of archaic self object ties in the specific function of validation of perception. [1] This quote is from a book by psychoanalysts outside the Lacanian orientation (which is the orientation

[S][J][P] | Redesigned

I just loaded a new theme/design for the main [S][J][P] Site, and I think it looks really damn good. * The new design looks great on a laptop, phone, or tablet. * It is clean and well organized. * The typography is great. * I'm thrilled with how it

◉ Newsletter v.4.5 | Civilization, the State, & Psychoanalysis

◉ Newsletter v.4.5 | Civilization, the State, & Psychoanalysis

Hello again from the American Midwest I usually start writing this newsletter early in the week and then adding to it bit by bit as the week goes on. This week was jam-packed, and what little downtime I had needed to be downtime (i.e., I needed to not be

Brubaker's Newsletter

Brubaker's Newsletter

From the most recent email newsletter [https://eepurl.us13.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=12703963b24c2d94a368d4082&id=ffaede124d] Ed Brubaker [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Brubaker] sent out. > I'll be honest here, in case it's not evident in my work all the time, I'

The Quotidian Associations №008 | Self Criticism & Self Agrandisment

The Quotidian Associations №008 | Self Criticism & Self Agrandisment

I've been reading some Derrida [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida] as of late. Whenever I do this, I start to think about things deconstructively [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/derrida/#Dec]. I playfully consider the binary opposition between two related concepts and think about what would