Psychoanalytic Thinking with Dr Don Carveth

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

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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 [email protected].

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 [email protected].

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 [email protected].

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.

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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].

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].

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.

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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 theory of sex and marriage.

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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?

Are there no choices with consequences?

Dr Carveth works with Aodhán Moran to produce this podcast. If you'd like to inquire about Aodhán's services, contact him here.