Recorded April 3 2026
Broadcast April 12, 2026
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Everyone has heard of Sigmond Freud and boy, do funny images pop in our heads when we hear his name. The accent, the couch, the cigar. In part, this is because people just don’t seem to take him very seriously anymore. Is this fair? Are his ideas like the id, ego, and superego no longer helpful? Have antidepressants and other medications made psychoanalysis obsolete? On this episode, we ask these questions and more.
Susan Sugarman is Professor of Psychology at Princeton University. She is a developmental psychologist with an interest in unexplainable elements of the human experience, and the intersections of psychology, philosophy, and the history of ideas. She is the author of more than a dozen books, most recently Sigmond Freud: A Contemporary Introduction published by Routledge.
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