For the 2009 album by ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead please see The Century of Self.
The Century of the Self is a British television documentary film by Adam Curtis. It was first screened in the UK in four parts in 2002.
"This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." - Adam Curtis' introduction to the first episode.
Sigmund Freud, the founder o...
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For the 2009 album by ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead please see The Century of Self.
The Century of the Self is a British television documentary film by Adam Curtis. It was first screened in the UK in four parts in 2002.
"This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." - Adam Curtis' introduction to the first episode.
Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, changed the perception of the human mind and its workings. His influence on the twentieth century is generally considered profound. The series describes the ways public relations and politicians have utilized Freud's theories during the last 100 years for the "engineering of consent".
Freud himself and his nephew Edward Bernays, who was the first to use psychological techniques in public relations, are discussed. Freud's daughter Anna Freud, a pioneer of child psychology, is mentioned in the second part, as is one of the main...
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