Speaking Body | InForm: Psychoanalysis, Politics, & Discord Servers (Pt. 1)

Show Notes

INTRO:
In this episode of InForm:Podcast Neil & Jared go through questions, comments, criticisms, and concerns regarding psychoanalysis and revolutionary politics.

BACKGROUND:
Neil & Jared both participate on the Discord servers for Red Library & The Regrettable Century. Recently some of the other members of those communities asked some questions about the revolutionary potential (or the lack thereof) of psychoanalysis.

Given that the communication on the discord servers was only text-based we thought it would be interesting & useful to continue working through some of the questions, comments, criticisms, and concerns the original conversation brought up.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: 

• Some small talk to get warmed up
• What's Discord?
• Lacan in time
• The shift from Name-of-the-Father (singular) to Names-of-the-Father (plural)
• Capitalism's effect on jouissance
• Our desire is the desire of the Other
• "Enjoy!" as a demand 
• The Lacanian experience of analysis
• Should InForm have its own Discord server? 

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Creators and Guests

Host

Neil Gorman

Neil Gorman is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst tin private practice near Chicago. He is the founder and owner of Interlude Wellness PLLC, a member of the Lacanian Compass, the New Lacaian School (NLS), and the World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP).

What is Speaking Body ?

From the clinic to culture, where psychoanalysis meets the everyday.