Donald L Carveth

Professor

Sociology

   York Hall C117
   416-487-6741
   dcarveth@yorku.ca

I am interested in human irrationality, both individual and collective, and approach its study from the standpoints of both sociology and psychoanalysis.

Children and Youth
Health and Mental Health
Psychotherapy
Religious Beliefs

Doctorate:
University of Toronto
Masters:
University of Toronto

social psychology; psychoanalysis: theory and practice; existential philosophy and theology; sociology and psychoanalysis of religion.

Journal Articles

    •    "The Cas of Harry Guntrip." Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis / Revue Canadienne de Psychanalyse 15, 1 (Spring 2007), in press.   
 
     •    Carveth, D.L. & J. Hantman. "Marriage-at-a-Distance." Clio's Psyche 13, 1 (March 2006): 169-174.   
 
     •    “Psychoanalysis in Canada.” The Edinburgh International Encyclopedia of Psychoanalysis, Ed. Ross M. Skelton. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006.   
 
     •    "The Foundations of Psychohistory: Positivism, Humanism, or Both?" Clio's Psyche 13, 1 (June 2006): 9-11.   
 
     •    "A Model for Psychohistorical Teaching: Commentary on David R. Beisel’s 'Teaching About Groups'” Clio's Psyche 13, 1 (March 2006): 198-200   
 
     •    "Donald Carveth: Psychoanalytic Sociologist." Featured Scholar, Interviewed by Paul H. Elovitz, Editor, Clio's Psyche 13, 1 (June 2006): 66-74.   
 
     •    "Self-Punishment as Guilt Evasion: Theoretical Issues." Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis / Revue Canadienne de Psychanalyse 14, 2 (Fall 2006): 172-96.   
 
     •    Carveth, D.L. (2005). “Is the Medium the Message in Psychoanalysis?” Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/Revue Canadienne de Psychanalyse 13, 2 (Winter 2005)   
 
     •    "Paul Roazen: A Memoir." Clio's Psyche 12, 3 (December 2005): 166-7.   
 
     •    Carveth, D.L. (2004). “The Melancholic Existentialism of Ernest Becker.” Free Associations, Vol. 11, Part 3 (No. 59): 422-29.  Full Text (HTML) 
 
     •    Carveth, D.L. & J. Hantman (2003). "Fugitives From Guilt: Postmodern De-Moralization and the New Hysterias." American Imago 60, 4: 445-480.  Full Text (HTML) 
 
     •    Hantman, J. & D. Carveth (2002). “Transcending the Dangers of the Dyad: Enhancing Therapeutic Triangulation Through Working Individually with People in Relationships.” Modern Psychoanalysis 27, 1: 31-49.  Full Text (HTML) 
 
     •    “Leaving Development to the Developmentalists: Sticking to What we Know in Psychoanalysis.” Modern Psychoanalysis 25, 1 (2001): 43-51.  Full Text (HTML) 
 
     •    Carveth, D.L. & Naomi Gold (2000). "The Preoedipalizing of Klein in (North) America: Ridley Scott's Alien Re-analyzed." PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts. Vol. 3 (1999).  Publisher's Site 
 
     •    "The Unconscious Need for Punishment: Expression or Evasion of the Sense of Guilt?" Paper presented at the International Conference on the 70th anniversary of Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, McMaster University, September, 1999. Psychoanalytic Studies (2000).  Full Text (HTML) 
 
     •    Forster, S.E. & D.L. Carveth (1999). "Christianity: A Kleinian Perspective." Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/Revue Canadienne de Psychanalyse 7, 2 (Fall, 1999): 187-218. Republished online by Psyche Matters .  Full Text (HTML) 
 
     •    "Discussion of Seeman's 'The Psychological Uses of Literature.' Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes 62, 1 (Spring 1999): 91-94.    
 
     •    "Is There a Future in Disillusion? Insight Psychotherapy in the New Millennium." JMKOR: Journal of Melanie Klein and Object Relations 16, 3 (1998): 555-587. A revised version of this paper appeared in the Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis 27, 2 (1999): 325-358.  Full Text (HTML) 
 
     •    Republished in PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article number 980223. Published June 20, 1998.    
 
     •    "Freud's Flawed Philosophy of Religion: A Reply to Rempel." Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis 6, 1 (1998): 141-147.  Full Text (HTML) 
 
     •    Republished again in PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 971001. Published December 8, 1997.   
 
     •    Discussion of "'Someday...' and 'If only...' Fantasies: Pathological Optimism and Inordinate Nostalgia as Related Forms of Idealization." A paper by Salman Akhtar, M.D. Presented at a scientific meeting of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society, February 17, 1996.   
 
     •    "Reply to Stolorow and Atwood." Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/Revue Canadienne de Psychanalyse 3, 2 (1995): 263-269.   
 
     •    "Selfobject and Intersubjective Theory: Part 2, A Dialectical Critique of the Intersubjective Perspective." Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/Revue Canadienne de Psychanalyse 3, 1 (1995): 43-70.   
 
     •    "Dark Epiphany : The Encounter with Finitude or the Discovery of the Object in The Body." Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought 17, 2 (Spring 1994): 215-250.   
 
     •    "Selfobject and Intersubjective Theory: A Dialectical Critique. Part I: Monism, Dualism, Dialectic." Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/Revue Canadienne de Psychanalyse 2, 2 (1994): 151-168.   
 
     •    Reprinted in Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/ Revue Canadienne de Psychanalyse 1, 2 (1993): 19-46.   
 
     •    "Discussion" of a paper by Jessica Benjamin as part of a symposium on "Female Psychology: New Psychoanalytic Perspectives." Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/Revue Canadienne de Psychanalyse 1, 1 (1993): 95-99.    
 
     •    "Dead End Kids: Projective Identification and Sacrifice in Orphans." International Review of Psycho-Analysis 19, 2 (Summer 1992): 217-228.   
 
     •    "The Borderline Dilemma in Paris, Texas: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Sam Shepard". Mosaic 25, 4 (Fall, 1992): 99-120.   
 
     •    "In Reply to Eagle's Reply." Philosophy of the Social Sciences 18 (1988), 377-78.   
 
     •    "The Epistemological Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Deconstructionist View of the Controversy." Philosophy of the Social Sciences 17 (1987), 97-115.   
 
     •    "The Analyst's Metaphors: A Deconstructionist Perspective." Psychoanalysis & Contemporary Thought 7, 4 (1984), 491-560.  Full Text (HTML) 
 
     •    "Judith Rossner's Portrait of the Psychoanalytic Process: A Critical Appraisal." The Ontario Psychologist 16, 6 (December, 1984), 15-18.   
 
     •    "Psychoanalysis and Social Theory: The Hobbesian Problem Revisited." Psychoanalysis & Contemporary Thought 7, 1 (1984), 43-98.  Full Text (HTML) 
 
     •    "Sociology and Psychoanalysis: The Hobbesian Problem Revisited." The Canadian Journal of Sociology 7, 2 (1982), 201-229.   
 
     •    "The Hobbesian Microcosm: On the Dialectics of the Self in Social Theory." Sociological Inquiry 47, (1977), 3-12.   
 
     •    "The Disembodied Dialectic: A Psychoanalytic Critique of Sociological Relativism." Theory and Society 4, 3 (1977), 73-102.

Book Chapters

    •    "Psychoanalysis in Canada." Contribution to The Edinburgh International Encyclopedia of Psychoanalysis, Edited by Prof. Ross Skelton of the Department of Philosophy, Trinity College, Dublin. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006.   
 
     •    "The Passion of the Christ: Psychoanalytic and Christian Existentialist Perspectives." In Passionate Dialogues: Critical Perspectives on Mel Gibsons's 'The Passion of the Christ'. Ed. D.Burston 7 R. Denova. Pittsburgh, Penn.: Mise Publications, 2005, pp. 171-178.  Full Text (HTML) 
 
     •    "The Analysts's Metaphors." Chapter in an Ebook on Metaphor and Psychoanalysis, B. Melnick (Ed.), published by PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts. January, 2002.  Publisher's Site 
 
     •    "Die Metaphern des Analytikers. Eine dekonstructionistische Perspektive." In: Buchholz MB (Hrsg). Metaphernanalyse. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This German translation of "The Analyst's Metaphors: A Deconstructionist Perspective" (Psychoanalysis & Contemporary Thought 7, 4 [1984], 491-560) was included as a chapter in this collection on "metaphoranalysis" edited by Buchholz.   
 
     •    "Psychoanalytic Conceptions of the Passions". In Freud and the Passions, ed. J. O'Neill. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, ch. 2, pp. 25-51 (1996).   

•    2002 SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Journals: "Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/Revue Canadienne de Psychanalyse"
 
     •    2003 SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Conferences. (Conference cancelled due to the SARS outbreak)
 
     •    2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 1999, 1998, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993 Glendon Research Grant


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