Psychoanalytic Thinking with Dr Don Carveth

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.

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.  

In this episode, Aodhán Moran interviews Dr Carveth on death. 

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 derives. Envy and aggression as grounded in a phantasy of lack, rationalized by Lacan instead of analyzed as phantasy.

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.'

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.

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. 

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.

In this lecture, the third in the Clinical Series, Dr Carveth discusses defence mechanisms, in their more primitive and more mature forms.

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.  

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.  

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".

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.

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."

In this lecture, the first in the 2017 Bion series, Dr Carveth introduces the group psychology of Sigmund Freud and Wilfred Bion.