Speaking Body

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 Laca...

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 someth...

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 te...

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 le...

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 happe...

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 complet...

In this episode of Inform: Podcast I interview Why Theory's Ryan Engley about psychoanalysis in the classroom. (Tod McGowan, the other half of Why theory was interviewed about this same topic on an earlier episode of InForm .)  Our conversation ranges all over the place, but one of the consistent themes is the idea of sustaining the analysand's/student's desire/curiosity. Some of our references in...

InForm Podcast: 052 The episode you're about to listen to is a conversation with Peter Rollins, a thinker, writer, podcaster, and community organizer who works at the intersections of psychoanalysis, theology, and philosophy. Before getting started I'd like to say the following: Getting to do this was something that was very exciting for me because I've been reading Pete's books, listening to his...

Intro:   Psychoanalytic superstar Todd McGowan makes his second appearance on the InForm: Podcast. In this episode (after Neil makes an error), we talk about psychoanalysis in the classroom.  Longer Show Notes:  At the top of the show, you hear Neil realizing he has forgotten to hit record after we have all been talking for 25 min. But after that, you can hear Neil, Jared, and Todd discuss:  How T...

Intro: On this episode of InForm:Podcast we talk with Dr. Leon Brenner about his forthcoming book The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language, which is part of the Palgrave Lacan Series edited by Calum Neil and Derek Hook. Dr. Leon Brenner is a research fellow at the University of Potsdam and lecturer at the International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin. He is a training analyst, studying...

INTRO: On this episode of InForm:Podcast Neil & Jared sit down and talk with Ryan Engley from the Why Theory Podcast about ordinary psychosis and the classroom as a psychoanalytic space.  REFERENCES:  T.R. Johnson's book " The Other Side of Pedagogy " ( Amazon )  Some info on Ordinary Psychosis ( Text 1 , Text 2 , Text 3 , Text 4 , Text 5 )  Bruce Fink's book " A Clinical Introduction to Lacan...

Intro: Today on InForm:Podcast we are lucky enough to talk with super-theorist Todd McGowan. Content: We reached out to Todd McGowan and asked if he would be willing to talk about how his experience in analysis (as an analysand) influenced the ways that he thinks, works, and lives. Todd responded to our request and was very generous with his time. (He talked with us for over 90 min!) In addition t...