Freud and Beyond 2015 #4

[@armadillodylan]

I am deeply thankful for these videos. As a psychiatrist in the UK about to move towards medical psychotherapy, they have been very helpful in starting to find my own position in relation to the theory and it's a joy to recognise some of my own instincts in what's gone before. Don's recognition of the secular-sacred is especially refreshing. Thank you

[@armadillodylan]

P.s i realise how grandiose that sounds. Be assured I'm striving to interrogate and challenge my "instincts" too :)

[@doncarveth]

Thank you

[@doncarveth]

It seems to me that that is a deeper form of depression. Attacked by the super ego does not always result in a sense that “I am bad” but into deeper, more pervasive sense of despair. Such despair bears all the earmarks of splitting: all goodness appears to disappear from the world and the self, resulting in a purveyors of blackness. To me this is just a deeper depression, potentially analyzable.

[@elindel65]

It seems that the transitional/synthesis space is a highly creative but also temporary space to be in. You mentioned play, religion, art, cinema, the theater. Would dreaming also be in this space? Thank you for a very interesting lecture.

[@doncarveth]

Dreaming is not the same as play or art. See Hana Siegel on this.

[@JA-xb7od]

Professor, what about depression that is not about "I am bad" but rather the overwhelm of suffering, whether mine or others', feels too much to bear (perhaps some might call this unremitting complicated grief), if this lasts for years, e.g. following a traumatic loss related to perceived cruelty and experiencing a complete loss of safety in the world. (I.e., "(some) OTHERS are bad". How would Kleinians characterize this position for a person who formerly was in the depressive position?

[@elindel65]

Is Winnicott’s “me not me” transitional object/area an example of a synthesis?