Show Notes
In this episode, Dr Carveth explores the relationship between Jesus & Freud. Whether or not Freud himself thought so, many psychotherapists, even some analysts, Don suspects, think we are responsible only for our actions, not for our thoughts, impulses, desires and feelings. Jesus famously disagrees. Dr Carveth explains why he thinks Jesus is right.
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Correction: not a one-way progression from knowing to being but a dialectical integration of knowing and being. Although my technique has always been relational (vs. still face, cold fish, abstinence, neutrality, non-self-revealing), Freudian and Kleinian work on enhancing self-understanding remains essential, as does the conscientious critique of the superego. In liberating conscience one is emancipating the true self.
First as a Freudian, then a Kleinian, the technique was "enlightening." With Winnicott, Kohut and Bion it shifted from knowing to being.