Elizabeth Lunbeck

Elizabeth Lunbeck is a professor in the department of the history of science at Harvard University and the author of The Americanization of Narcissism (Harvard University Press, 2014). She has written widely on the history of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, and is currently working on the paradoxical appeal of Trump’s narcissism.

Roundtable

Sigmund Freud’s The Ego and the Id

Freud died 80 years ago this week. In this "Virtual Roundtable," three scholars debate the legacy of his 1923 text.

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Arts & Culture

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Education & Society

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Elizabeth Lunbeck

Sigmund Freud’s The Ego and the Id

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