Psychoanalysis as Lived Experience

A Conversation with Neil Gorman

I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Neil Gorman for an episode of his podcast, The Speaking Body. What began as a standard interview quickly evolved into a wide-ranging conversation about psychoanalysis as a lived experience.

We discussed the work we do here at Lectures on Lacan and what it means to read Lacan seriously without trafficking in empty jargon. The conversation also flowed into the everyday realities of professorships and parenthood, how uncertainty and impossibility factor into clinical work, and what actually happens when an analysis ends. We even tackled the tangible meaning of the fee in treatment, the role of the body in tele-analysis, and considered what it means to bring psychoanalysis out of the clinic and into the streets.

It was a fantastic discussion — one which touched on many of the themes we often explore together at Lectures on Lacan. You can listen to the full episode and check out the show notes here:

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