Adam Curtis
Director
The Century of the Self (2002)
Miniseries
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.
Released March 17, 2002
Episode 58 min
None+
Genres: Documentary, War
Keywords: tmdb.psychoanalysis, tmdb.miniseries, mdblist.has-trailer, tmdb.sigmund-freud
Production Companies: RDF Media, BBC
Network: BBC Two
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
8.3
S1E1 - Happiness Machines
The 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 to take Freud's ideas to manipulate the masses. He showed American corporations how they could make people want things they didn't need by systematically linking mass-produced goods to their unconscious desires.
March 17, 2002, midnight
S1E2 - The Engineering of Consent
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.
March 24, 2002, midnight
S1E3 - There Is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads. He Must Be Destroyed
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.
March 31, 2002, midnight
S1E4 - Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering
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.
April 7, 2002, midnight
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BBC Two
58 min/ep
232 min
March 17, 2002
April 7, 2002, midnight
Ended
NR
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