Freud Café Canada
Between Hours/Interdisciplinary Dialogues, Toronto Psychoanalytic Society in collaboration with Community Bridges, Canadian Psychoanalytic Society presents:
FREE public talks on psychoanalytic ideas by Canadian psychoanalysts with an open discussion about their impact on our lives today.

Psychoanalysis as Soul-Making
BETWEEN HOURS
Online Event
Join us for an informal talk with Donald Carveth in conversation with Stephen Fowler.
Saturday, March 1, 2025: 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm (ET) / 9:30 am – 11:00 am (PT)
** A free online event via Zoom. Preregistration is required.
Please RSVP by email to info@torontopsychoanalysis.com. Registration closes one week prior to the event.
For many years psychoanalysts and literary scholars have written books, such as Bruno Bettelheim’s, “Freud and Man’s Soul,“ Elio Frattaroli‘s, “Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain,“ and Meg Harris Williams’, “The Vale of Soulmaking: the Post-Kleinian Model of the Mind and Its Poetic Origins.” What are we to think of this idea of clinical psychoanalysis as a soul-making activity?
Donald Carveth, PhD, RP, FIPA is emeritus professor of Sociology and Social and Political Thought, York university, and a training and supervising analyst in the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis.
Stephen Fowler, MD, FIPA Having worked as an Emergency Physician for thirty years and as a psychoanalyst in private practice for fifteen, Stephen has had a longstanding commitment to exploring how psychoanalysis and Christianity can mutually benefit each other. His book, Probing the Mind to Free the Soul: Toward a Psychoanalytic Protest Theology, was published in 2017.
With Vivienne Pasieka, PhD, psychoanalyst, moderating.
Previous Presentations from The Freud Café
October 26, 2024 – The Revolt against Mourning: The Outlawing of Grief and the Road to Social Violence, Vengeance and War
May 31, 2024 – Are you Empathic?
January 20, 2024 – The Leader’s Hypnotic Influence and the Creation of Alternate Reality
November 18, 2023 – Life and Death in the Metaverse
May 13, 2023 – Shakespeare’s Prefiguring of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Reverie: The Dream within the Dream
September 8, 2022 – Propaganda and the Lies We Tell Ourselves
March 5, 2022 – A Freud Café Dialogue in an Age of Bewilderment
October 29, 2021 – The Freud Café Fright Night – “And Things That Go Bump in the Night…” (& why we love them)
April 7, 2021 – Why the Couch? Psychoanalysis: From Freud to the Digital Age
April 12, 2017 – Hold Me: In Mind & in Reality
March 27, 2017 – Love, Relationships and Gender in the Times of Social Media
January 30, 2017 – In the Beginning was the Name: The Language of the Unconscious
November 23, 2016 – Psychoanalysis and Mysticism: Friends or Foes?
September 12, 2016 – The Traumatic Loneliness of Children
June 1, 2016 – Why do we Need to Remember our Dreams?
May 2, 2016 – Coupling: A psychoanalytic point of view
March 21, 2016 – The Psychology of Sport / The Psychoanalysis of Hockey
September 28, 2015 – Of Human Bondage and Jokes
May 21, 2015 – Whose unconscious is it anyway? – A user’s guide, from Freud to more recent ideas about the unconscious
March 19, 2015 – Sibling Rivalry in Jane Austen’s Fiction, a psychoanalytic reading
January 29, 2015 – Hostile and Malignant Prejudice: Or Why it May be Easier to Hate Your Neighbour
November 13, 2014 – On Guilt and Conscience: Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents — A Kleinian Re-View
September 23, 2014 – Oedipus, Aristotle and Freud
May 22, 2014 – Freud and Plato: Plato’s Anticipations of Freud’s Psychology of Dreams in the Republic
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