The Century of the Self S01E02 · The Engineering of Consent

Overview

The programme explores how those in power in post-war America used Freud's ideas about the unconscious mind to try and control the masses.

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1. 1 1. Happiness Machines2002-03-17 · 58mThe story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American nephew, Edward Bernays. Bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person
2. 2 2. The Engineering of Consent2002-03-24 · 58mThe programme explores how those in power in post-war America used Freud's ideas about the unconscious mind to try and control the masses.
3. 3 3. There Is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads. He Must Be Destroyed2002-03-31 · 58mIn the 1960s, a radical group of psychotherapists challenged the influence of Freudian ideas in America. They were inspired by the ideas of Wilhelm Reich, a pupil of Freud's, who h
4. 4 4. Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering2002-04-07 · 58mHow both the Labour Party in Britain and the Democrats in America have sought to gain power through use of the focus group, invented by psychoanalysts to fulfil desires of the inne