The Century of the Self
The legacy of famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud informs the lives of people throughout the world even to this day, though it's a phenomenon to which most are unaware. The film is an exhaustive examination of his theories on human desire, and how they're applied to platforms such as advertising, consumerism and politics.
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- Cast：
- Adam Curtis , Anne Bernays , Robert Reich , Edward L. Bernays , Sigmund Freud , Wilhelm Reich , Tony Blair , Margaret Thatcher , Bill Clinton , Ronald Reagan
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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.
In 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 had turned against him and was hated by the Freud family. He believed that the inner self did not need to be repressed and controlled. It should be encouraged to express itself.
How 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 inner self.
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