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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.

Announcing | The Launch of Interlude Wellness

I've been a psychoanalytic psychotherapist for a decade and a practicing Lacanian analyst for the past several years. In addition to this, I'm also a professor in the Aurora University School of Social Work [https://aurora.edu/academics/colleges-schools/social-work/index.html], which is a clinical

Rain where?

It rained at the top of Greenland for the first time in recorded history [https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/08/19/weather/greenland-summit-rain-climate-change/index.html] .

◎ Drafts №11 | Hard-Boiled Detectives & Psychoanalysts

◎ Drafts №11 | Hard-Boiled Detectives & Psychoanalysts

◎ Drafts №10 | Theses

◎ Drafts №10 | Theses

Hi, Over the past few weeks that I've been writing ◎ Drafts, I've been thinking more and more about the ways that I can use psychoanalysis and social work that does not suck to engage with, and possibly change, the different ways that ideology (i.e., fundamental

◎ Drafts №9 | When Imagination is Already Formed

◎ Drafts №9 | When Imagination is Already Formed

⌬ Podcast Lecture № 5 | Pleasure & Instinct v. Enjoyment & Drive; The Shift to the Structural & Economic Model

⌬ Podcast Lecture № 5 | Pleasure & Instinct v. Enjoyment & Drive; The Shift to the Structural & Economic Model

Hi, In this lecture, I talk about Pleasure & Instinct v. Enjoyment & Drive, shifting from the topographical model of the unconscious, pre-conscious, conscious to the structural model of id, ego, and superego. I also do a short bit on the economic model of the mind. Below are the notes

⌬ Podcast Lecture № 4 | Transference

⌬ Podcast Lecture № 4 | Transference

Hey all. Below are the notes for the fourth installment [https://share.transistor.fm/s/e26985ae] of podcast lectures I'm recording for a class I'll be teaching this coming fall. The topic of this podcast lecture is transference. If you listen to the lecture, you will