Thank you again for another very illuminating discussion. The great Neville Symington also recognised that psychoanalysis was a moral endeavour - careful to define the 'moral' aspect in the true sense of the word. I want to chase you up on whether you had considered further a lecture on Meltzer's theory of The Claustrum, and also I wondered if you see links or resemblances between the Claustrum and Steiner's theory of Psychic Retreats. I am sure your workload is as substantial as your output, but your lectures, and the clarity you bring to these complex issues, is just so helpful.

@doncarveth

6 ай бұрын

Thank you. I would love to do video lectures on Melzer, Steiner, and many others, but I’m afraid my vision continues to deteriorate while my analytic practice continues to expand. You can imagine the difficulty.

You would have no idea how much I am grafeful to you making these video lectures. I have listened to many of your videos over and over again. I like all those lectures, but I like the 2019 lectures a little more, especially the one on reality testing. Thank you so much!

@doncarveth

6 ай бұрын

You are most welcome

What an insightful lecture. Thank you so much for sharing this content.

@doncarveth

6 ай бұрын

Thank you

That was great🙏🙏🌷🌷 many thanks dr Carveth

Thank you for this, Don. My wife gave me a copy of your new book on Guilt from Routledge a little while ago, and maybe this primer will help me get around to reading it!

50:00 in I couldn't agree more, it demonstrates the problem of living, the patient cannot make love to his Mother, nor kill her off again, neurosis beliefs rage we all feel most repressed at having things done to us or being unable to get what we want, the system best serves people who are mildly neurotic, the psychosis is much closer to the real as nothing the ego does really works, so in this very delicate space realization might occur, as Zen master points out life and death so what.

Thank you very much, always learning from you.

Great presentation, as always. I was happy to hear Dr. Carveth mention the debate (on youtube) between Chomsky and Foucault. As a linguist by profession I was attracted by the deconstructionist current (more Barthes than Derrida-Foucalt) and some of the horizons it opened up for research. However, deep down I was always skeptical, wondering where it would lead. In that debate, Chomsky, with his trademark calm and unpretentious demeanor, plus the strenght of arguments based on rigorous philosophical reasoning, literally buried Foucault under the absurdities of the conclusions he was forced to reach by the development of his theorem. One last nit-picking remark: Paul of Tarsus claimed he had a vision on his way to Damascus (however, many scholars doubt he actually was from Tarsus.)

Thank you Dr Carveth. This is super useful for me. It helps reinforce my understanding of the text on narcissistic personalities described by Dr Nancy McWilliams in Psychoanalytic Diagnosis. 👍

@doncarveth

6 ай бұрын

Very good, thanks.

@bellakrinkle9381

3 ай бұрын

I especially like Nancy McWilliams' understanding of Schizoid Neuro- Divergent personalities. From my perspective, DSM needs to update their narrow views on Schizoids.

Don, I really like listening to you speak on psychoanalysis. Have you read any of Donald Rinsley and James Masterson? If so would you ever make a video on your perspective of their writing?

@doncarveth

6 ай бұрын

Yes, I have. Haven't read them in ages. But good idea. Thanks.

@ScottishTerrorsInLA

6 ай бұрын

As opposed to reviewing particular authors’ work, could you perhaps speak off the cuff on developmental trauma and abandonment trauma? Your video with your personal ideas of repression vs dissociation was excellent. Thank you for all your valuable contributions to curious analysands.

@doncarveth

6 ай бұрын

@@ScottishTerrorsInLA good idea, but the problem is, I am old and half blind! If I can find a time and energy…

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Good! Concerning the elimination of the superego versus the subordination of it under conscience. The cultural and societal understanding that is built into the superego serves a function, but inner work needs to eliminate the emotional charge that comes with it. In fact it is when this charge is gradually eliminated that conscience naturally steps forward and starts to guide the individual in a way that is wholesome and life orienting. We should set up a divide between elimination and subordination. That would be misleading. We need both, properly understood. Best J

What an intelligent guy

Thanks for another great talk, Don! Great to see you.

@doncarveth

6 ай бұрын

Thanks.

@doncarveth

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Ryan, all the best to you and your family for the holidays.

@user-zx7ln6vv8x

6 ай бұрын

Same to you, Don! Hope we can cross paths again at some point down the road. - With Gratitude@@doncarveth

Don, thanks for another great talk. Would you be interested in discussing separation anxiety? I think that for some it is related to unconscious guilt and the need for punishment. Thanks.

@doncarveth

6 ай бұрын

Good idea, thanks

@nancybartley4610

4 ай бұрын

Dr. C, Ask one of your grad students who has to read these works to read them onto a tape for you to listen to. Just a thought on how to get around the blindness.

@doncarveth

4 ай бұрын

@@nancybartley4610 Fortunately, I have an app that will open most documents and read them aloud to me.

In today’s culture, I feel more and more guilt ascribed to me by others. It has saturated everything and destroys the hope of relationship, let alone healthy interaction with people. Maybe I am just old.

@doncarveth

3 ай бұрын

Hard for me to say because I am old too!

Hey Don, any chance you may have the time to get into some of Hans Loewald's work?

@doncarveth

6 ай бұрын

I wish. I’ve touched on his idea of the healthy resolution of the Oedipus, here and there, and his idea that regression is sometimes essential to creativity, and other assorted ideas of his, but he deserves a complete lecture I agree.

What do you think about Fairbairn's system? Anti-libidinal ego vs libidinal ego? To me this always seemed to make sense, that the anti-libidinal ego attacks the libidinal ego to protect it. That it wants to avoid the frustration of denied/frustrated libidinal aims. David P Celani has some interesting papers using Fairbairn's theory, for example his paper on obsessional characters. Titled "A Structural Analysis of the Obsessional Character: A Fairbairnian Perspective"

@doncarveth

6 ай бұрын

www.yorku.ca/dcarveth/Fairbairn.htm

I know it's out of topic but I always wonder wether you ever watched any of David lynchs movies? Specially the Twin Peaks series. I think it would be great if you analyze them and give us your opinion

@jiminy_cricket777

5 ай бұрын

Don has mentioned Lynch at least once, he comes up in Don's discussions of psychosis, with Lynch's film, Blue Velvet being an example of psychosis in film format - the meaning of the film being right there on the surface, with no metaphor to interpret, no resonance (I think this is in the Bion 1-4 series of talks, and maybe comes up again in one of the F&Bs or in the Kleinian theory lectures).

Can you make a video series on lacan, and thank you for your interesting videos and your integrative view of psychoanalysis

@doncarveth

6 ай бұрын

I would like to be able to do so, but my visual impairment makes this difficult. I did devote one chapter of my 2018 book, “psychoanalytic, thinking“ to Lacan

@hashemali4750

6 ай бұрын

@@doncarveth I hope you feel better soon Dr

Do you think that the kleinian school in psychoanalysis is an example that drive theory and object relations are not contradicted and that Steven Mitchell was wrong when he said that psychoanalysis should choose between one of them and leave the other

@doncarveth

5 ай бұрын

Most definitely, yes, not incompatible.

@bellakrinkle9381

3 ай бұрын

Perhaps not incompatable, yet less confusing if one is attempting to "analyze" all past romantic relationships. Which, drive theory, or object relations will demand less time. I know which approach will work best for me. 😃

@hashemali4750

3 ай бұрын

@@bellakrinkle9381 i didn't understand what you mean can you explain what you said more clearly and are you a psychoanalyst ?