Psychoanalytic Thinking with Dr Don Carveth
by Donald Carveth
Join distinguished professor and psychoanalyst Dr Don Carveth for engaging lectures centring around psychoanalysis, diving into its roots, bringing us up to the modern-day. Known for his clear communication style, Don's grasp of the literature comes through in the thought-provoking opinions he provides. This podcast will facilitate a deeper understanding of yourself and the world around you.Donald L Carveth, PhD, RP, FIPA is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Social & Political Thought at York University in Toronto. He is a training and supervising analyst in the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis, past Director of the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis, and past Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/Revue Canadienne de Psychanalyse.Dr Don Carveth works with Aodhán Moran to produce this podcast. Follow Aodhán on X/Twitter at @aodhanpmoran or contact at [email protected].
Episodes
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The Blues
The Blues Grief, Mourning, Despair, Living on
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Technique 2
Correction: not a one-way progression from knowing to being but a dialectical integration of knowing and being. Although my technique has always been relational (vs. still face, cold fish, abstinence, neutrality, non-self-revealing), Freudian and Kleinian work on enhancing self-understanding...
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Clinical Technique Over Time: From Knowing to Being
First as a Freudian, then a Kleinian, the technique was "enlightening." With Winnicott, Kohut and Bion it shifted from knowing to being.
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Psychotherapy? Psychoanalysis?
What is the difference?
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Is psychotherapy like painting or more like sculpture?
In his 1905 essay on psychotherapy Freud elaborates the distinction between painting (pouring on) and sculpture (chipping away). Classical defense and resistance analysis seeks to emancipate the true self.
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Outside in or Inside out
While Freud, Klein and Kohut speak of internalizing good objects, Winnicott speaks of the "going-on-being" of the true self that should not be impinged upon or abandoned.
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GUILT: A Psychoanalytic Perspective, Part 1, Theory
Guilt evasion. Types of guilt. Conscious/unconscious, Persecutory/reparative, Justified/unjustified, Survivor or success guilt, Collective guilt, etc.
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Corrections Two kinds of psychopathy two kinds of depression two kinds of shame.
Just as Klein and Grinberg distinguished two kinds of guilt, J. Rejd Meloy distinguished two kinds of pstychopathy,, primary and secondary; amd Sidney J. Blatt distinguished introjective and anaclitic depression; so we need to distinguish persecutory and reparative shame.
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Superego, Conscience and the Narcissism of our Times
Dr Carveth begins by describing the difference between the narcissistically based superego from the object-oriented conscience. He sees the former as culturally derived and the latter as biologically given. We discuss how in the clinical situation persecutory guilt, i.e., superego, may often be...
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Shame, Guilt, and Ruminations
Dr. Carveth discusses the differences between guilt that reflects concern for the other and alternatively self-abuse that serves narcissistic purposes. The former relates to Klein's depressive/reparative stage, labeled 'conscience' by Carveth, and the latter derives from the paranoid/schizoid...
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On Narcissism
Freud, Lacan, Mead and Christianity on narcissism.
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Is Psychoanalysis a path to salvation?
Carveth/Lusensky: Is Psychoanalysis a Path to Salvation? A Freudian and a Jungian dialogue about psychoanalysis and Christianity
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Jesus Was The First Psychoanalyst
In this episode, Dr Carveth speaks with Jakob Lusensky on the Psychology & The Cross podcast. Don and Jakob discuss Don converted from Jung to Freud, his writing on the importance of differentiating conscience from the superego, and what we can learn from Jesus and the bible about psychoanalysis....
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Splitting
In this episode, Dr Carveth discusses splitting. Don goes on to discuss a problem in Kleinian theory of development, and how Klein attributes the capacity to split of infants under six months of age. That said, splitting is a complex cognitive capacity to abstract and generalize that can only…
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New Book (Interview): Guilt: A Contemporary Introduction
In this episode, Dr Carveth is interviewed by Aodhán Moran regarding his latest book Guilt: A Contemporary Introduction. Purchase the book: https://www.routledge.com/Guilt-A-Contemporary-Introduction/Carveth/p/book/9781032382661 Dr Carveth works with Aodhán Moran to produce this podcast. Contact...
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Psychoanalysis of Sociology and the Sociology of Psychoanalysis
In this episode, Dr Carveth questions whether or not the psychoanalytic theory of acculturation is anything more than a projected castration phantasy. Was the turn away from guilt and the superego in psychoanalysis part of the neo-liberal attack on regulation? Dr Don Carveth works with Aodhán…
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Are Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Guilt Still Relevant in the Culture of Narcissism?
In this episode, Dr Carveth wrestles with the question: is Tragic Man Guilty? He then goes on to discuss the superego as aggression turned on self or deployed against scapegoats, and how authoritarians are marching under the banner of the superego. Dr Don Carveth works with Aodhán Moran to…
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Marxism
In this episode, Dr Carveth teases apart Marxism and Leninism. For Don, they are not the same thing. He then goes on to discuss democratic Marxism, social democracy, and anti-authoritarianism. Dr Don Carveth works with Aodhán Moran to produce this podcast. Contact Aodhán for podcast production at...
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Marching Under the Banner of the Superego: Notes on the Mania for Reproaching
In this episode, Dr Carveth discusses the "Woke" authoritarianism and the new Puritanism. A PDF of the talk is here: https://www.doncarveth.com/_files/ugd/8ad211_dd32806eb3bc4e2ea8866bfd08e0cee9.pdf Presented to the British Psychoanalytic Society on May 30, 2023. Dr Don Carveth works with Aodhán...
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Self-Esteem and Psychoanalysis
In this episode, Dr Carveth discusses self-esteem regulation, Freud's ego-ideal, and conscience. Dr Don Carveth works with Aodhán Moran to produce this podcast. Contact Aodhán at [email protected].
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Mourning: Freud and Klein
In this episode, Dr Carveth discusses mourning from a Freudian & Kleinian perspective. Dr Don Carveth works with Aodhán Moran to produce this podcast. Contact Aodhán at [email protected].
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Reality Testing
In this episode, Dr Carveth discusses reality testing by diving into philosophical realism vs. radical constructivism, the three worlds hypothesis. interpersonal reality-testing, transcending narcissism in science and in personal life, illusions, & delusions. Dr Carveth works with Aodhán Moran to...
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Otto Kernberg: Theory and Practice
Here is the chart of Kernberg's model of the emotional and psychological development mentioned in this lecture: https://bit.ly/3wMbXP7 In this episode, Dr Carveth discusses Kernberg's theoretical and clinical contributions. Don dives into Kernberg's Ego Psychology/Object-Relations approach, his...
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The Sins of The Fathers
In this episode, Dr Carveth discusses The Sins of the Fathers. The analysands of corrupt analysts are suspected of being corrupt too unless they undergo the ritual purification of a second analysis with an analyst in good standing. But do bad parents always have bad kids? Do good parents always...
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The Still Face: Implications for Psychotherapy
In this episode, Dr Carveth critiques the ideology of the "Still Face" in psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy, & psychoanalysis. Dr Don Carveth works with Aodhán Moran to produce this podcast. Contact Aodhán at [email protected].
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Psychoanalysis as Meditation
In this episode, Dr Carveth discusses psychoanalysis as meditation: Observing ego. Inner watcher. Symbolic subject vs. Imaginary Ego. Deconstruction. Disillusionment with disillusionment. Dr Don Carveth works with Aodhán Moran to produce this podcast. Contact Aodhán at [email protected].
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Psychoanalysis as Evolution
In this episode, Dr Carveth discusses psychoanalysis as biological, psychological and social evolution. Dr Carveth works with Aodhán Moran to produce this podcast. If you'd like to inquire about Aodhán's services, contact him here.
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Psychoanalysis as Religion
In this episode, Dr Carveth frames psychoanalysis as religion. The human psyche is characterized by two levels of functioning— primary and secondary process (Freud), PS and D (Klein) —so all religion, spirituality and mysticism are similarly split. But so is psychoanalysis itself. There is...
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Psychoanalysis IS Spirituality
In this episode, Dr Carveth delivers a lecture on his paper, 'Psychoanalysis is Spirituality' to the Michigan Psychoanalytic Society at its 45th Annual Conference. The paper was published in the online journal Vestigia, Vol. 1, Issue 2, 2020: pp. 49-61 and can be accessed by clicking here. Dr...
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Schizoid Personality Disorder
In this episode, Dr Carveth dives into Schizoid Personality Disorder. Don describes the patient as detached, introverted loners who move away from rather than toward or against others. Dr Carveth works with Aodhán Moran to produce this podcast. If you'd like to inquire about Aodhán's services,...
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The Oedipus Complex
In this episode, Dr. Carveth discusses the Oedipus complex as a universal, narcissistic trauma. Dr Carveth works with Aodhán Moran to produce this podcast. If you'd like to inquire about Aodhán's services, contact him here.
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Horney, Sullivan, & Fromm
In this episode, Dr Carveth discusses the differences among Horney, Sullivan and Fromm in relation to biologism, sociologism and existentialism. Dr Carveth works with Aodhán Moran to produce this podcast. If you'd like to inquire about Aodhán's services, contact him here.
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Freudian and Kleinian Visions
In this episode, Dr Carveth delineates the fundamental difference between the Freudian and Kleinian visions of the human predicament. Dr Carveth works with Aodhán Moran to produce this podcast. If you'd like to inquire about Aodhán's services, contact him here.
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The Analytic Cure Across the Schools
In this episode, Dr Carveth discusses the analytic cure as conceived by the different psychoanalytic schools of thought: Freud, Klein, Bion, Lacan, Winnicott, Kohut, et al. Dr Don Carveth works with Aodhán Moran to produce this podcast. Contact Aodhán at [email protected].
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Fairbairn & Guntrip: Origins of Object-Relations
In this episode, Dr Carveth discusses Object-Relations Theory, Fairbairn's cartography of endo-psychic structure, Guntrip's addition, Carveth's revisions and additions, and the romanticism of Fairbairn and Guntrip. This lecture summarizes Dr Carveth's paper here:...
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What Cures: An Exploration of Psychoanalysis
In this episode, Dr Carveth inquires into what it is that 'cures' in psychoanalysis. Insight? Relationship? Both? The therapist's warmth and empathy are essential to building a working alliance. But his or her intelligence and learning are crucial to being able to use the alliance to help cure.
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Transference Neurosis
In this episode, Dr Carveth details transference neurosis as the defining element of psychoanalysis per se, as distinct from psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
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Jesus & Freud: Are We Responsible For Our Thoughts?
In this episode, Dr Carveth explores the relationship between Jesus & Freud. Whether or not Freud himself thought so, many psychotherapists, even some analysts, Don suspects, think we are responsible only for our actions, not for our thoughts, impulses, desires and feelings. Jesus famously...
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The Walking Dead: Are We Dead or Alive?
In this episode, Dr Carveth discusses Donald Winnicott's wish to 'be alive when he dies'. Implicit in Winnicott's quip is that many people are not fully alive - they are walking dead. Psychoanalysis is about the ways we deaden ourselves as defences against the terror of being alive.
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Use Me Up: Masochism Revisited
In this short episode, Dr Carveth revisits masochism. Yes, I wanna spread the news That if it feels this good gettin' used Oh, you just keep on usin' me Until you use me up Until you use me up
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On Death
In this episode, Aodhán Moran interviews Dr Carveth on death.
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Clinical Series: Psychoanalysis as Deconstruction
In this lecture, the eighth in the Clinical Series, Dr Carveth discusses psychoanalysis as the deconstruction of literalized myth. Instead of getting caught up in the derivatives of the core unconscious phantasy or myth, analysts should listen for what is behind the conflicts and inhibitions it...
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Clinical Series: Masochism
In this lecture, the seventh in the Clinical Series, Dr Carveth discusses Freud, Fairbairn, and Berliner on masochism, focusing on Berliner's paper, 'The Role of Object Relations in Moral Masochism.'
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Clinical Series: Phantasy, Dreaming, and Awakening in Psychoanalysis
In this episode, the sixth in the Clinical Series, Dr Carveth delivers a lecture on his paper, 'Phantasy, Dreaming and Awakening in Psychoanalysis' to the Chicago Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology. Don touches on psychosis and involuntary daydreams.
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Clinical Series: A Critique of Heinz Kohut
In this lecture, the fifth in the Clinical Series, Dr Carveth discusses what he sees as the fallacy of the deficit model thinking and the role of the sadistic superego in narcissistic disorders.
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Clinical Series: Transference and Countertransference
In this lecture, the fourth in the Clinical Series, Dr Carveth discussing the nature and types of transference across the schools of psychoanalysis, before detailing countertransference.
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Clinical Series: Defence Mechanisms
In this lecture, the third in the Clinical Series, Dr Carveth discusses defence mechanisms, in their more primitive and more mature forms.
About this show
Join distinguished professor and psychoanalyst Dr Don Carveth for engaging lectures centring around psychoanalysis, diving into its roots, bringing us up to the modern-day. Known for his clear communication style, Don's grasp of the literature comes through in the thought-provoking opinions he provides. This podcast will facilitate a deeper understanding of yourself and the world around you.Donald L Carveth, PhD, RP, FIPA is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Social & Political Thought at York University in Toronto. He is a training and supervising analyst in the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis, past Director of the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis, and past Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/Revue Canadienne de Psychanalyse.Dr Don Carveth works with Aodhán Moran to produce this podcast. Follow Aodhán on X/Twitter at @aodhanpmoran or contact at [email protected].
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