Psychoanalytic Thinking with Dr Don 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.
Episodes
The Blues
The Blues Grief, Mourning, Despair, Living on
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 remains essential, as does the conscientious critique of the superego. In liberating conscience one is eman
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.
Psychotherapy? Psychoanalysis?
What is the difference?
Bridging Psychoanalysis and Jungian Psychology | Jakob Lusensky
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.
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.
GUILT: Part 2, Conscientious Critique of the Superego
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.
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.
Charm and Alarm
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 emphasized to defend against the vulnerabilities associated with loving and being loved. We consider the
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 position, labeled 'superego'. We review varying technical approaches to each of these clinical presentatio
On Narcissism
Freud, Lacan, Mead and Christianity on narcissism.
Is Psychoanalysis a path to salvation?
Carveth/Lusensky: Is Psychoanalysis a Path to Salvation? A Freudian and a Jungian dialogue about psychoanalysis and Christianity
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. See the full show notes on the Psychology & The Cross website: https://psychologyanthecross.transist
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 arise with symbolization, sometime in the second year of life. This is not a problem for the Kleinian the
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 Aodhán for podcast production at aodhanpmoran@gmail.com. Follow Aodhán here: https://twitter.com/aodh
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 Moran to produce this podcast. Contact Aodhán for podcast production at aodhanpmoran@gmail.com.
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 produce this podcast. Contact Aodhán for podcast production at aodhanpmoran@gmail.com.
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 aodhanpmoran@gmail.com.
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 Moran to produce this podcast. Contact Aodhán for podcast production at aodhanpmoran@gmail.com.
Sexuality
In this episode, Dr Carveth discusses sexuality. Existential vs biologistic understanding of human sexuality. The psychosexual stages as differing worlds of meaning. Sexual narratives. Dr Don Carveth works with Aodhán Moran to produce this podcast. Contact Aodhán at aodhanpmoran@gmail.com.
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 aodhanpmoran@gmail.com.
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 aodhanpmoran@gmail.com.
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 produce this podcast. If you'd like to inquire about Aodhán's services, contact him here.
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 rejection and then the introduction of Klein, his "trojan horse" strategy and his contribution to the t
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 have good kids? Does this socially deterministic theory make sense? Are there no biological factors? Ar
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 aodhanpmoran@gmail.com.
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 aodhanpmoran@gmail.com.
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.
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 primitive and mature religion, spirituality and mysticism— and primitive and mature psychoanalysis. Mature ve
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 Carveth works with Aodhán Moran to produce this podcast. If you'd like to inquire about Aodhán's services
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, contact him here.
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.
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.
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.
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 aodhanpmoran@gmail.com.
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: http://www.yorku.ca/dcarveth/Fairbairn.htm
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.
Transference Neurosis
In this episode, Dr Carveth details transference neurosis as the defining element of psychoanalysis per se, as distinct from psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
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 disagrees. Dr Carveth explains why he thinks Jesus is right.
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.
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
On Death
In this episode, Aodhán Moran interviews Dr Carveth on death.
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 generates and deliteralize or deconstruct the core phantasy from which the repetition compulsion derive
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.'
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.
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.
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.
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.
Clinical Series: Depression
In this lecture, the second in the Clinical Series, Dr Carveth appreciates and critiques Freud's theory of depression. Don details many sides of depressive affect: Klein's paranoid schizophrenic and depressive positions; the role of aggression turned on the self; guilt not borrowed but induced, and finally, outlines how not all depression is the result of trauma or loss.
Clinical Series: Anxiety
Introducing the Clinical Series — a collection of lectures detailing psychoanalytic theory as it relates to clinical practice. In this lecture, the first in the Clinical Series, Dr Carveth discusses Freud, Klein, Kierkegaard, and Buber on anxiety and guilt.
Wilfred Bion: Introduction to Bion 4
In this lecture, the last in the 2017 Bion series, Dr Carveth returns to the text by Neville and Joan Symington, "The Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion".
Wilfred Bion: Introduction to Bion 3
In this lecture, the third in the 2017 Bion series, Dr Carveth returns to the text by Neville and Joan Symington, "The Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion", discussing Bion's idea of the grid.
Wilfred Bion: Introduction to Bion 2
In this lecture, the second in the 2017 Bion series, Dr Carveth focuses on the text by Neville and Joan Symington, "The Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion."
Wilfred Bion: Introduction to Bion 1
In this lecture, the first in the 2017 Bion series, Dr Carveth introduces the group psychology of Sigmund Freud and Wilfred Bion.
Melanie Klein: Introduction to Kleinian Theory 06
In this lecture, the sixth and final in the 2016 Kleinian series, Dr Carveth discusses manic defences, reparation, manic reparation, early Oedipus complex, projective identification, and countertransference. Delivered to the HamAva Institute, Tehran, Iran.
Melanie Klein: Introduction to Kleinian Theory 05
In this lecture, the fifth in the 2016 Kleinian series, Dr Carveth dives in-depth into Klein's depressive (or reparative) position, depressive anxiety as 'concern', depressive vs persecutory guilt, and manic defences. Delivered to the HamAva Institute, Tehran, Iran.
Melanie Klein: Introduction to Kleinian Theory 04
In this lecture, the fourth in the 2016 Kleinian series, Dr Carveth dives in-depth into Klein's paranoid-schizoid position, the pathology of the paranoid-schizoid position, envy, and attacks on linking. Delivered to the HamAva Institute, Tehran, Iran.
Melanie Klein: Introduction to Kleinian Theory 03
In this lecture, the third in the 2016 Kleinian series, Dr Carveth discusses Klein's paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions, a dialectical version of Kleinian theory, defences as phantasies, grief over what we are doing to mother's body (Mother Nature), and an account of Ridley Scott's "Alien" using a psychoanalytic lens. Delivered to the HamAva Institute, Tehran, Iran.
Melanie Klein: Introduction to Kleinian Theory 02
In this lecture, the second in the 2016 Kleinian series, Dr Carveth discusses Klein's "Our Adult World and its Roots in Infancy" (1959). Notable is the fact that in this paper, published the year before Klein died in 1960, there is no mention whatever of the death instinct. Also notable is her constant emphasis upon the important role of the real mother, thus giving the lie to the widespread
Melanie Klein: Introduction to Kleinian Theory 01
In this lecture, the first in the 2016 Kleinian series, Dr Carveth introduces Kleinian psychoanalytic theory. Delivered to the HamAva Institute, Tehran, Iran. Dr Don Carveth works with Aodhán Moran to produce this podcast. Contact Aodhán at aodhanpmoran@gmail.com.
Freud & Beyond 06: Heinz Kohut & The Rise of Self Psychology (Finale)
In this lecture, the sixth and final in the 2015 Freud and Beyond series, Dr Carveth introduces Heinz Kohut work, discussing the evolution of Self Psychology, the evolution of the Self-Object, and the Disruption-Repair cycle.
Freud & Beyond 05: Tragedy vs Romance in Psychoanalysis
In this lecture, the fifth in the 2015 Freud and Beyond series, Dr Carveth discusses the tragic and romantic in psychoanalysis.
Freud & Beyond 04: Dualism, Dialectics & Winnicott's Transitional Area
In this lecture, the fourth in the 2015 Freud and Beyond series, Dr Carveth discusses mind-body dualism, centring around Donald Winnicott's transitional area. We need breaks from reality. Winnicott believed the transitional area is where religion, art, and play are rooted.
Freud & Beyond 03: Freud's Seduction Theory & Sandor Ferenczi's Rediscovery of Trauma
In this lecture, the third in the 2015 Freud and Beyond series, Dr Carveth discusses Freud's seduction theory. Don then introduces Sandor Ferenczi, detailing his influence on Ronald Fairbairn, Melanie Klien, Donald Winnicott, and John Bowlby.
Freud & Beyond 02: Freud's Theory of Dreams
In this lecture, the second in the 2015 Freud and Beyond series, Dr Carveth dives into Freud's dream theory in clinical practice and methods of distinguishing between the causes and meaning of dreams.
Freud & Beyond 01: Defense Mechanisms & The Oedipus Complex
In this lecture, the first in the 2015 Freud and Beyond series, Dr Carveth discusses Kleinian and Freudian defence mechanisms before moving onto Freud's oedipal orientation toward the psyche.
Welcome to Psychoanalytic Thinking with Dr Don Carveth (Trailer)
Welcome to Psychoanalytic Thinking, where we explore psychoanalytic thought from inception up through to modernity. Join distinguished professor and 40-year veteran psychoanalyst Dr Don Carveth for engaging lectures on psychoanalysis. 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 de
