SCIENTIFIC MEETING - After a 45 year long journey through psychoanalysis: Where am I now?

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
Hybrid Meeting
Presenter: Don Carveth, PhD, RP, FIPA
Wednesday, May 21, 2025: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm (no break)
TPS Scientific Meeting: Open to Members, Affiliates/Guests, TIP Candidates, and ATPPP Trainees Only (*Fee may apply. See below.)
Deadline for RSVP/registration is one week prior to the meeting.
Preregistration is required.
** DISTANCE PARTICIPATION ONLY: Offered via Zoom.
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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.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this presentation participants will be able to:
- Participants will be able to explain the difference between persecutory and reparative guilt.
- Participants will be able to explain the difference between the superego and the conscience and the origins of each.
- Participants will be able to explain why although, as Freud argued, we need less (persecutory) guilt in civilization, we need much more reparative guilt.
- Participants will be able to understand that although many believe narcissistic pathology has little or nothing to do with guilt but only with trauma and deprivation the fragmentation and emptiness these patients suffer is a result of what Bion called the “ego- destructive superego.”
Donald L. Carveth, PhD, RP, FIPA
Donald L. 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, and past editor in chief of the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis. He is the author of The Still Small Voice: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Guilt and Conscience (Karnac, 2013); Psychoanalytic Thinking: a Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theory and Practice (Routledge,2018); and Guilt: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2023). Many of his publications are available on his York website (yorku.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.
This event is eligible for Section 1 CME credits (0.5 credits/hour). This event is an accredited group learning activity (section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certificate Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, approved by the Canadian Psychiatric Association (CPA). The specific opinions and content of this event are not necessarily those of the CPA, and are the responsibility of the organizer(s) alone. As per the Royal College standard, each presentation provides a minimum of 25% interactive learning.
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