Lecture 3: Self
In the first half of the 20th century, the ‘New Psychology’ – in which Freudian psychoanalysis played only a minor role – offered people a new vocabulary for understanding the self in modern conditions, in what has been called a transition ‘from character to personality’. Ideas about the unconscious, personality types, the developmental self, sex and intelligence reached unprecedentedly large audiences.
Date: 5 February 2026, 17:00
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Speaker: Professor Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
Organising department: Faculty of History
Part of: The James Ford Lectures 2026: The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editor: Belinda Clark