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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.

Claude AI on Jouissance, Desire, & Love

I've been experimenting by engaging both Claude.ai and ChatGPT in discussions about Lacanian theory and practice. For the past few days, I've been talking with both of these LLMs about jouissance, desire, and love. Some of the things they have said about how these three

Repetition, return, & connections becoming clear

A paragraph I enjoyed a lot from Craig Mod's TBOT. Had you told us back then, that the key to it all lay and deliberate repetition, we would have never believed you. But it's true. It's through re-walking that I've come to

TBOT: Good Sentences

Today, my copy of Things Become Other Things (TBOT for short), by Craig Mod arrived. I just read the preface, and found these sentences that I really liked: Folks here harbored their own sense of decay. The world all goin' sideways, she said, and don't know if

AI & Abduction

Earlier, I posted about this earlier today, but here are some more really interesting observations from Peter Coy's essay on AI in the (paywalled) New York Times opinion section on how AI uses a process called abduction when it produces responses to what we ask it/prompt it

AI & Kids

This paragraph from Peter Coy's essay in the (paywalled) New York Times opinion section is just great. Computer scientists are continually surprised by the creativity displayed by new generations of A.I. Consider that lying is a sign of intellectual development: Children learn to lie around age 3,

Conversation

In The Conversation section of the New York Times (alas, paywall), Bret Stephens reflects on "the efforts on college campuses to revive the dying art of conversation, as a remedy against angry campus politics." He says: conversation for the purpose of learning rather than scoring points isn’t

From78 - S2.E011

We know that time is limited... In this episode, I talk about what it feels like to know that time is finite.