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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.

Experiments

Experiments

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I like to try out different ways of writing & podcasting in a serial format. Below are links to my experiments. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Text: * AM⌭PM [https://www.speakingbody.com/tag/am-pm/] - Written during the week. I tend to write in the morning then again in the evening. * ◎ Drafts

⚯ Reading Notes | Mental Health & The Social order

⚯ Reading Notes | Mental Health & The Social order

> [M]ental health is part, a subcategory, of the set of the public order. > There is no other definition for mental health than that of public order. [...] Mental heal [is] defined, then, by reference to [the] public order. Mental health works to maintain the social order. Psychoanalysts don&

◎ Drafts | An Intermission...

◎ Drafts | An Intermission...

⚯ Reading Notes | Miles Law via David French

In his Third Rail Email Newsletter [https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/the-third-rail/], political commentator David French [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_French_(political_commentator)] says the following: > I’d like to introduce you to an obscure but commonsense statement about human nature. It’s called Miles’s law [https:

Cancelation is a problem, regardless of if it comes from the left or the right

From the Wait, What? [https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/] Newsletter by Molly Jong-Fast [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Jong-Fast] (Part of The Atlantic's new email newsletter program [https://www.theatlantic.com/subscriber-newsletters/].) > Earlier this month, a Hill-HarrisX poll [https://emails.theatlantic.com/c/eJwdUMuOwyAM_JpycwUkJOTAYS_7HzxMYMujIqRV_

It is the performance inside the legal procedure that might be more important than the legal procedure...

In an article in The Atlantic [https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/trump-strategy-steve-bannon-indictment/620704/] David Frum [https://www.theatlantic.com/author/david-frum/] shares some well articulated insights about some of the things playing out around the Jany6’th commission. Comparing what Bannon is doing the what the Chicago

Open Notebooks

Open Notebooks

One of the things that I make here at [S][J][J] is a series of open notebooks. You can use the links below to explore those. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Currently, I have a few preoccupations that get a dedicated notebook, a general sort of "catch-all" notebook, and a journal.