Neil Gorman
@speakingbody.com
Practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst, podcaster, parent, & pro-wrestling fan.
I contain multitudes!
https://www.speakingbody.com
https://www.interludewellness.com
I contain multitudes!
https://www.speakingbody.com
https://www.interludewellness.com
Desire is what keeps you from “going too far.” Jouissance is what happens when you do.
#Lacan #jouissance #desire #psychoanalysis
#Lacan #jouissance #desire #psychoanalysis
May 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Desire is what keeps you from “going too far.” Jouissance is what happens when you do.
#Lacan #jouissance #desire #psychoanalysis
#Lacan #jouissance #desire #psychoanalysis
This is what I’m thinking as I re-read the first two chapters of Lacan’s Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis:
The way Lacan uses the term “moral” is tied to what would be socially acceptable or endorsed. This is opposed to ethics which Lacan links to a singular & idiosyncratic desire.
The way Lacan uses the term “moral” is tied to what would be socially acceptable or endorsed. This is opposed to ethics which Lacan links to a singular & idiosyncratic desire.
May 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This is what I’m thinking as I re-read the first two chapters of Lacan’s Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis:
The way Lacan uses the term “moral” is tied to what would be socially acceptable or endorsed. This is opposed to ethics which Lacan links to a singular & idiosyncratic desire.
The way Lacan uses the term “moral” is tied to what would be socially acceptable or endorsed. This is opposed to ethics which Lacan links to a singular & idiosyncratic desire.
From @craigmod.com’s Things Become Other things event at Bookends & Beginnings in Evanston yesterday, which was a very fun event.
May 28, 2025 at 12:40 PM
From @craigmod.com’s Things Become Other things event at Bookends & Beginnings in Evanston yesterday, which was a very fun event.
Recently, I had a conversation with somebody who is interested in psychoanalysis and Lacan where I was asked if I could explain the destination between the drive and jouissance
Here is my attempt to describe how I think about that destination…
Here is my attempt to describe how I think about that destination…
May 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Recently, I had a conversation with somebody who is interested in psychoanalysis and Lacan where I was asked if I could explain the destination between the drive and jouissance
Here is my attempt to describe how I think about that destination…
Here is my attempt to describe how I think about that destination…
I’m a sucker for a good time travel story and right now, I’m reading “On theCalculation of Volume (Vil. 1), by Solvej Blake.
I’m half way through it, and I think not is one of the most interesting time travel stories I’ve encountered.
www.ndbooks.com/book/on-the-...
I’m half way through it, and I think not is one of the most interesting time travel stories I’ve encountered.
www.ndbooks.com/book/on-the-...
On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2025
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May 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I’m a sucker for a good time travel story and right now, I’m reading “On theCalculation of Volume (Vil. 1), by Solvej Blake.
I’m half way through it, and I think not is one of the most interesting time travel stories I’ve encountered.
www.ndbooks.com/book/on-the-...
I’m half way through it, and I think not is one of the most interesting time travel stories I’ve encountered.
www.ndbooks.com/book/on-the-...
Looking at the design of @jamesreeves.co’s website makes me feel impressed and jealous.
www.jamesreeves.co
www.jamesreeves.co
James A. Reeves
James is a writer and designer in the Middle West who makes midnight mixtapes and writes about highways and the search for god.
www.jamesreeves.co
May 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Looking at the design of @jamesreeves.co’s website makes me feel impressed and jealous.
www.jamesreeves.co
www.jamesreeves.co
So it looks like Sam Altman & Jony Ive are going to team up to make something, but no one knows what.
My guess is it will be like TARS and CASE from the Christopher Nolan film Interstellar… but… with rounded edges?
My guess is it will be like TARS and CASE from the Christopher Nolan film Interstellar… but… with rounded edges?
May 23, 2025 at 1:47 AM
So it looks like Sam Altman & Jony Ive are going to team up to make something, but no one knows what.
My guess is it will be like TARS and CASE from the Christopher Nolan film Interstellar… but… with rounded edges?
My guess is it will be like TARS and CASE from the Christopher Nolan film Interstellar… but… with rounded edges?
For those who may be interested: I’ve started a podcast with my fellow Lacanian analyst Isolda Alvarez.
The description is relaxed but serious conversations about Lacanian psychoanalysis and the way it affects/ is affected by) the imaginary, symbolic, & real today.
lacaniancompass.transistor.fm
The description is relaxed but serious conversations about Lacanian psychoanalysis and the way it affects/ is affected by) the imaginary, symbolic, & real today.
lacaniancompass.transistor.fm
Subject of the Unconscious
A podcast where there are relaxed but serious conversations about Lacanian psychoanalysis and the way it affects (and is affected by) the imaginary, the symbolic, and the real today.
lacaniancompass.transistor.fm
May 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
For those who may be interested: I’ve started a podcast with my fellow Lacanian analyst Isolda Alvarez.
The description is relaxed but serious conversations about Lacanian psychoanalysis and the way it affects/ is affected by) the imaginary, symbolic, & real today.
lacaniancompass.transistor.fm
The description is relaxed but serious conversations about Lacanian psychoanalysis and the way it affects/ is affected by) the imaginary, symbolic, & real today.
lacaniancompass.transistor.fm
I've seen a few people post about the Lacanian way of formulating psychosis, and wanted to chime in with my understanding/articulation of how psychosis functions and how it might be treated clinically.
May 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I've seen a few people post about the Lacanian way of formulating psychosis, and wanted to chime in with my understanding/articulation of how psychosis functions and how it might be treated clinically.
When psychoanalysis is working, one of the effects can be the analysand experiencing a shift from being captured by an assumed and unexamined fantasy to recognizing the fantasy as a fiction that that does not need to be imposed or enacted as it has thus far.
May 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
When psychoanalysis is working, one of the effects can be the analysand experiencing a shift from being captured by an assumed and unexamined fantasy to recognizing the fantasy as a fiction that that does not need to be imposed or enacted as it has thus far.
I'm spending a lot of time thinking about how psychoanalysis can move a person from being the subject of the unconscious to being able to witness the structures that have determined subjective experience.
#Lacan #Lacanian #psychoanalysis
#Lacan #Lacanian #psychoanalysis
May 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I'm spending a lot of time thinking about how psychoanalysis can move a person from being the subject of the unconscious to being able to witness the structures that have determined subjective experience.
#Lacan #Lacanian #psychoanalysis
#Lacan #Lacanian #psychoanalysis
I’m reading text to getready for the Knotting Seminar of the Lacanian Compass & New Lacanian School tomorrow in New York.
February 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I’m reading text to getready for the Knotting Seminar of the Lacanian Compass & New Lacanian School tomorrow in New York.
I used to think people with kids were over reacting when cold/flu season came around. I was like, “Why are you freaking out so much?”
Now, as a #parent of 4 #kids, when it’s cold/flu season, and one of my kids coughs, I’m like “Move the doomsday clock to one minute past midnight!”
Now, as a #parent of 4 #kids, when it’s cold/flu season, and one of my kids coughs, I’m like “Move the doomsday clock to one minute past midnight!”
February 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Now, I’m pruning who I follow here…
Bluesky (and other forms of social media) are windows onto the world, but we can control the view they show us, eh?
Bluesky (and other forms of social media) are windows onto the world, but we can control the view they show us, eh?
February 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Now, I’m pruning who I follow here…
Bluesky (and other forms of social media) are windows onto the world, but we can control the view they show us, eh?
Bluesky (and other forms of social media) are windows onto the world, but we can control the view they show us, eh?
Over the past three days, I’ve managed to wrangle my email inbox(s) from hundreds of messages (83 new/unread) to eight emails (four new/unread).
A small victory, but one that I felt worth enough to brag about with a post on Bluesky.
#email #postmodern-living
A small victory, but one that I felt worth enough to brag about with a post on Bluesky.
#email #postmodern-living
February 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Over the past three days, I’ve managed to wrangle my email inbox(s) from hundreds of messages (83 new/unread) to eight emails (four new/unread).
A small victory, but one that I felt worth enough to brag about with a post on Bluesky.
#email #postmodern-living
A small victory, but one that I felt worth enough to brag about with a post on Bluesky.
#email #postmodern-living
This album is wonderful. #Listening
December 9, 2024 at 12:25 AM
This album is wonderful. #Listening
All these years later, this one always makes me laugh. #TheFarSide
December 6, 2024 at 1:19 PM
All these years later, this one always makes me laugh. #TheFarSide
From78 is a podcast about the subjective experience of time. Episode 013, the forth episode of the second season, went live today.
share.transistor.fm/s/c2d0246f
share.transistor.fm/s/c2d0246f
From78-013 | Why do a podcast about this? | From78 | Episode 13
share.transistor.fm
December 3, 2024 at 3:19 PM
From78 is a podcast about the subjective experience of time. Episode 013, the forth episode of the second season, went live today.
share.transistor.fm/s/c2d0246f
share.transistor.fm/s/c2d0246f
Is anyone checking out izzzzi.net? It looks very interesting.
welcome back:
izzzzi.net
December 3, 2024 at 3:20 AM
Is anyone checking out izzzzi.net? It looks very interesting.
I’m doing a lot of teacher into Jacques-Alain Miller’s idea of the partner-symptom. Anyone know of good texts tha focus on this topic?
#lacan #psychoanalysis
#lacan #psychoanalysis
December 2, 2024 at 7:39 AM
I’m doing a lot of teacher into Jacques-Alain Miller’s idea of the partner-symptom. Anyone know of good texts tha focus on this topic?
#lacan #psychoanalysis
#lacan #psychoanalysis
Listening to lots of múm.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/4mw86...
Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/artist/m%...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/4mw86...
Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/artist/m%...
múm on Apple Music
Listen to music by múm on Apple Music.
music.apple.com
December 1, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Listening to lots of múm.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/4mw86...
Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/artist/m%...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/4mw86...
Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/artist/m%...
My wife and I had our fourth child (first daughter) yesterday.
For me, these few days in the hospital exist as such a liminal space. I can sense the day-to-day rhythms and routines going outside of it, but I feel like I’m in a short reprieve from them.
I also experience time differently…
For me, these few days in the hospital exist as such a liminal space. I can sense the day-to-day rhythms and routines going outside of it, but I feel like I’m in a short reprieve from them.
I also experience time differently…
December 1, 2024 at 5:49 PM
My wife and I had our fourth child (first daughter) yesterday.
For me, these few days in the hospital exist as such a liminal space. I can sense the day-to-day rhythms and routines going outside of it, but I feel like I’m in a short reprieve from them.
I also experience time differently…
For me, these few days in the hospital exist as such a liminal space. I can sense the day-to-day rhythms and routines going outside of it, but I feel like I’m in a short reprieve from them.
I also experience time differently…
I wrote up and did a short QTS podcast regarding thoughts on minimalism in general and my reaction to the idea, "Anything taken to the extreme can be complicated. And simplicity is no exception."
www.surplusjouissance.com/minimalism-d...
www.surplusjouissance.com/minimalism-d...
February 6, 2024 at 8:06 PM
I wrote up and did a short QTS podcast regarding thoughts on minimalism in general and my reaction to the idea, "Anything taken to the extreme can be complicated. And simplicity is no exception."
www.surplusjouissance.com/minimalism-d...
www.surplusjouissance.com/minimalism-d...
I've got a project right at the finishing line. One more set of edits, and I think it will be good to go... It is tempting to try to push through this last round, but I've been going at it for so long that I know I need a break. Till tomorrow then.
February 6, 2024 at 12:29 AM
I've got a project right at the finishing line. One more set of edits, and I think it will be good to go... It is tempting to try to push through this last round, but I've been going at it for so long that I know I need a break. Till tomorrow then.