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Psychoanalytic Thinking with Dr Don Carveth

Author: Donald Carveth

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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 aodhanpmoran@gmail.com.
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On Narcissism

On Narcissism

2025-09-0628:59

Freud, Lacan, Mead and Christianity on narcissism.
Carveth/Lusensky: Is Psychoanalysis a Path to Salvation? A Freudian and a Jungian dialogue about psychoanalysis and Christianity
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.transistor.fm/episodes/e09-jesus-was-the-first-psychoanalyst-with-donald-carveth Subscribe to Psychology & The Cross YouTube channel for video versions of the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMTxf19HOr9ut_m9tkuK_Rg Dr Carveth works with Aodhán Moran to produce this podcast. If you'd like to inquire about Aodhán's services, contact him here.    
Splitting

Splitting

2025-09-0612:10

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 theory of the mind of older children, adolescents and adults, but only for its theory of infant development. Dr Carveth works with Aodhán Moran to produce this podcast. If you'd like to inquire about Aodhán's services, contact him here.
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/aodhanpmoran
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.  
On Death

On Death

2022-02-0649:00

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.  
Clinical Series: Anxiety

Clinical Series: Anxiety

2021-12-1252:361

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.
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Michael Daly

superb. what a resource for students/interested folk.

Jun 26th
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