The Century of the Self
A documentary about the rise of psychoanalysis as a powerful means of persuasion for both governments and corporations.
Genre: Documentary
Cast:Adam Curtis , Robert Reich , Ann Bernays , Alfred Pritz , Erzie Karolyi , Pat Jackson , Peter Strauss , Peter Solomon , Stuart Ewen , Ernst Federn , Leopold Löwenthal , George Gallup Jr. , Marcel Faust , Celeste Holm , E. Howard Hunt , Martin Bergmann , Jesse Kornbluth , Werner Erhard
S1.E1 ∙ Happiness Machines
The first episode of the series introduces us to Edward Bernuys, Sigmund Freud's American nephew, and his groundbreaking ideas on population control.
S1.E2 ∙ The Engineering of Consent
Episode two looks into the theories of Edward Bernuys and Anna Freud, and how different organizations, CIA and corporate America included, applied them to society.
S1.E3 ∙ There Is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads: He Must Be Destroyed
Part three addresses how the concepts established by Bernuys were re-assessed during the 1960s, and led to the creation of the "Me" generation in the USA.
S1.E4 ∙ Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering
The final chapter explains how contemporary politicians on both sides of the Atlantic adopted and applied the ideas and techniques studied in this series.
