
Psychoanalytic Thinking with Dr Don Carveth
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The Blues Grief, Mourning, Despair, Living on


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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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Psychoanalytic Thinking with Dr Don Carveth is hosted by Donald Carveth. The show has published 70 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Blues" (17 September 2026, 22 minutes), "Technique 2" (17 September 2026, 11 minutes), and "Clinical Technique Over Time: From Knowing to Being" (7 September 2026, 32 minutes).
Psychoanalytic Thinking with Dr Don Carveth publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 37 minutes across 70 episodes.
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Donald Carveth hosts Psychoanalytic Thinking with Dr Don Carveth, an education podcast with 70 episodes published.
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Psychoanalytic Thinking with Dr Don Carveth
The Blues Grief, Mourning, Despair, Living on

Psychoanalytic Thinking with Dr Don Carveth
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...

Psychoanalytic Thinking with Dr Don Carveth
First as a Freudian, then a Kleinian, the technique was "enlightening." With Winnicott, Kohut and Bion it shifted from knowing to being.

Psychoanalytic Thinking with Dr Don Carveth
What is the difference?

Psychoanalytic Thinking with Dr Don Carveth

Psychoanalytic Thinking with Dr Don Carveth
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.

Psychoanalytic Thinking with Dr Don Carveth
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.

Psychoanalytic Thinking with Dr Don Carveth

Psychoanalytic Thinking with Dr Don Carveth
Guilt evasion. Types of guilt. Conscious/unconscious, Persecutory/reparative, Justified/unjustified, Survivor or success guilt, Collective guilt, etc.

Psychoanalytic Thinking with Dr Don Carveth
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...


Psychoanalytic Thinking with Dr Don Carveth
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...

Psychoanalytic Thinking with Dr Don Carveth
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...


Episode #46
Carveth/Lusensky: Is Psychoanalysis a Path to Salvation? A Freudian and a Jungian dialogue about psychoanalysis and Christianity

Episode #45
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...

Episode #43
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...

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...

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...

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...
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