Fridays @ CCP Lecture Series
Don Carveth, PhD
(Toronto, ON)
Friday, April 4, 2025
After a 45 year long journey and three psychoanalysis: where am I now
7-9pm (CST)
Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL
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Zoom
About the presentation: I graduated in 1985 from TIP trained, largely in ego psychology. I spent the next 15 years acquiring clinical experience and educating myself in American and British object relations theory, self psychology, relational, psychoanalysis, intersubjectivity theory, attachment theory and even Laconian theory. But by the time of the new millennium, I was turning back to earlier Freudian concepts: the structural theory, the sadistic, superego, the unconscious sense of guilt, the unconscious need for punishment, etc. But as I was turning back to the psychoanalytic psychology of guilt, and the superego, much of our field was moving further and further away from this. In so doing psychoanalysis was conforming to the wider culture of narcissism produced by neoliberal consumer capitalism . Like the wider society psychoanalysis has been in flight from guilt since the late 1950s. Time to overcome our social amnesia and turn back.
Dr. Donald L. Carveth is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Social and Political Thought and Senior Scholar at York University in Toronto. He is a training and supervising analyst in the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis and current Director of the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis. After completing a doctorate (1977) comparing and contrasting sociological and psychoanalytic theories of human nature (a summary of which was awarded the annual Theory Prize of the American Sociological Association in 1984), he undertook clinical psychoanalytic training, graduating from the Toronto Institute in 1985. With Dr. Eva Lester and others he helped found the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/Revue Canadienne de Psychanalyseof which he is a past Editor-in-Chief. He has published some fifty papers in this and other journals. Over the past decade his work has concentrated on issues of guilt, guilt-substitutes, and the differentiation of conscience as a fourth component of the structural theory of the mind in addition to id, ego and superego. He is in private practice in Toronto.
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to explain the difference between persecutory and reparative guilt.
Participants will be able to explain the difference between the super ego and the conscience and the origins of each
This is an Intermediate to Advanced Level of Presentation
Fees
CCP members: free with annual $195 membership, payable at registration.
Students:free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.
New Fellows / Ongoing: free with annual $250/$300 membership, payable at registration.
Non-CCP members, single admission: $50
Continuing Education
This program is sponsored for Continuing Education Credits by the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. There is no commercial support for this program, nor are there any relationships between the continuing education sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding that could be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If the program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CCP is licensed by the state of Illinois to sponsor continuing education credits for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Counselors and Licensed Clinical Psychologists (license no. 159.000941 and 268.000020 and 168.000238 Illinois Dept. of Financial and Professional Regulation).
Professionals holding the aforementioned credentials will receive 2.0 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits a completed evaluation form must be turned in at the end of the presentation and licensed psychologists must first complete a brief exam on the subject matter. No continuing education credit will be given for attending part of the presentation. Refunds for CE credit after the program begins will not be honored. If a participant has special needs or concerns about the program, s/he/they should contact Toula Kourliouros Kalven by April 3, 2025 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org
References/Suggested Readings
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.
Presented by
The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee: Toula Kourliouros Kalven, Alan Levy, PhD, Zak Mucha, LCSW
The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis is an IRS 501(C)(3) charitable organization, and expenses may be tax deductible to the extent allowed by law and your personal tax situation.