Don Carveth,PhD
Guilt: A Contemporary Introduction
April 5-6, 2025
Kinzie Hotel
20 West Kinzie Street, Chicago
& ZOOM
Dr. Donald Carveth is emeritus professor of sociology and social and political thought at York University in Toronto. He is a training and supervising analyst in the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis; a past Director of the Toronto Institute; a past editor in chief of the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis. He is the author of The Still Small Voice: Psychoanalytic Reflections of Guilt and Consciousness (Karnac, 2013); Psychoanalytic Thinking: a Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2018); and Guilt: A Contemporary Introduction (Routhledge 2023). Many of his publications are available on his York website ( york.ca/dcarveth) and his current website (doncarveth.com); his video lectures are available on his YouTube channel (YouTube.com/doncarveth). He is in private psychoanalytic practice in Toronto.
Seminar Title: Guilt: A Contemporary Introduction.
Seminar description: Employing my recent book by the same title as the main reading, we will cover: the nature and types of guilt; the nature and origin of conscience; the distinction between conscience and the superego Conflicts between conscience and superego; the invasion of guilt in psychoanalysis and society; working with guilt, super ego, and conscience in the clinic; the nature of the psychoanalytic cure.
Reading:
Carveth, D. (2013). “The Still Small Voice: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Guilt and Conscience,” London: Karnac.
Carveth, D. (2023). “Guilt: A Contemporary Introduction.” London: Routledge.
Carveth, D. (2023). Marching under the Banner of the Superego: Notes on the Mania for Reproaching. Paper presented as part of “The Political Mind” program of the British Psychoanalytic Society, May 30, 2023. Online here: https://www.doncarveth.com/_files/ugd/8ad211_dd32806eb3bc4e2ea8866bfd08e0cee9.pdf
Frattaroli, E. (2013). Reflections on the absence of morality in psychoanalytic theory and practice. In S. Akhtar (Ed.), Guilt: Origins, Manifestations, and Management (pp. 83–110). New York: Jason Aronson.
Freud, S. (1916). Some character-types met with in psycho-analytic work.. S.E., 14: 311–333.
Plus the Friday evening paper which he will supply directly to the candidates.