From the clinic to culture, where psychoanalysis meets the everyday.
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In this episode of Speaking Body, I read a Substack piece reflecting on thinking publicly, revising ideas, and appreciating listener feedback. I situate the essay in summertime observations and my immersion in Stephen Batchelor, then revisit my claim that Batchelor reframes Buddhism as ethical practice rather than a metaphysical or ontological system. Drawing on Lacanian aphorisms about the…
For the first time, Neil reads a written piece aloud to promote the Speaking Body Substack (speakingbody.substack.com) and to improve his writing by hearing it spoken. The piece, titled “The Intersection of Psychoanalysis and Secular Buddhism” with the subtitle “An Ethics That Resists the Seductive Feeling of Being Certain,” describes his long academic life shaped by school calendars and his…
Show Notes: In this episode of The Speaking Body , Neil speaks with Sam McCormick , professor of communication studies at San Francisco State University and host of Lectures on Lacan . What begins as an interview quickly becomes a wide-ranging conversation about Lacan, teaching, fatherhood, clinical practice, and psychoanalysis as a lived experience. Neil and Sam discuss what it means to read…
Neil Gorman hosts a short solo episode of The Speaking Body Podcast, continuing his argument that psychoanalysis is oriented by not knowing, privileging the unknown because it generates desire and questions, unlike other therapies that rely on the practitioner knowing. He extends this by distinguishing judging from noticing: judging is tied to knowing and aims to assert conclusions or make…
A short solo episode of The Speaking Body Podcast, building on a previous discussion of psychoanalysis as a clinical practice that does not take up the patient’s supposition that the analyst knows the patient’s unconscious, instead offering curiosity and a position of lack of knowledge. Neil argues this stance is unusual in the U.S. psychotherapeutic marketplace, where many therapies emphasize…
In this short solo episode of The Speaking Body Podcast, I (Neil Gorman) try a new format and invite listeners to email feedback about whether they like it. I explain a key difference between how psychoanalysis is practiced versus many forms of psychotherapy, coaching, or other helping relationships: when someone seeks help, they often engage in transference by supposing the helper has knowledge,…
In this episode, I announce that I’m rebranding and relaunching my podcast, previously called the Informed Podcast, as Speaking Body. I explain that Speaking Body will be both a podcast and a website (speakingbody.com) that will archive my writing, offer a newsletter, and occasionally include video episodes on YouTube, while keeping the same RSS feed for subscribers. Going forward, I will focus…
In this episode of the InForm: Podcast, I speak with Peter Rollins , the man behind pyro-theology, the Wake festival, the Spark retreat, Atheism for Lent, and many more things that can provoke all sorts of interesting experiences and elaborations. I first became aware of Pete's work many years back as I was attempting to build up my own understanding of Lacan. I don't remember exactly how it…
On this episode of InForm:Podcast, I speak with practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst Isolda Alverez about the way the aims of the psychoanalytic clinic have changed from Freud's time through Lacans and into the present day. Recommendations: 1. Band: Yo La Tango ( Spotify , Apple Music ) Album: "And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out" ( Spotify , Apple Music ) 2. Lucifer (TV Show on Netflix , Comic…
On this episode of InForm: Podcast, Neil talks with Nathan Gorelick about psychoanalysis, psychedelics, psychosis, delusions, science, & mysticism. The result is a long, hopefully informative conversation. Nathan is Term Assistant Professor of English at Barnard College in New York. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and he has completed…
