Carveth Nov 2023 3

[@yspark8857]

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]

You are most welcome

[@ПОЧИНЮКУКУХУ]

Thank you for this profound lecture. 🙏

[@josibc3524]

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

[@doncarveth]

Thank you

[@jiminy_cricket777]

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!

[@elessar0009]

Thank you very much, always learning from you.

[@sarahhajarbalqis]

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]

Very good, thanks.

[@bellakrinkle9381]

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

[@panteasafaee3659]

That was great🙏🙏🌷🌷 many thanks dr Carveth

[@jonashjerpe7421]

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

[@dan-arebjrngrnvik3513]

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]

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

[@ScottishTerrorsInLA]

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]

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

[@RyanHolley-w1z]

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

[@doncarveth]

Thanks.

[@doncarveth]

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

[@RyanHolley-w1z]

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

[@richardprice9730]

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.

[@corinasoare7665]

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]

Good idea, thanks

[@nancybartley4610]

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]

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

[@mitchell_fig]

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

[@doncarveth]

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.

[@MrZakatista]

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]

Hard for me to say because I am old too!

[@ПОЧИНЮКУКУХУ]

That is essense of left movements. I am Russian and we still have this USSR "searching for the guilty one" culture. It's never ending paranoid game.

[@johnandrew5467]

​@@ПОЧИНЮКУКУХУ You mean leftist movements? Because it's easy to see this paranoia on the right as well.

[@hashemali4750]

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]

Most definitely, yes, not incompatible.

[@bellakrinkle9381]

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]

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

[@Nobody-Nowhere]

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]

www.yorku.ca/dcarveth/Fairbairn.htm

[@hashemali4750]

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

[@doncarveth]

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]

@@doncarveth I hope you feel better soon Dr

[@ipsofactophoto]

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[@BoLuko-w7h]

What an intelligent guy

[@panteasafaee3659]

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]

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).