The Century of the Self(2002)
DocumentaryWar & Politics
First Air Date: 2002-03-17
Average Runtime: 58m
Rating: 8.5
Votes: 121
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 4
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.
Keywords
psychoanalysisminiseries
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Miniseries
Episodes: 4E01
Happiness Machines
Air Date: 2002-03-17
The story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American nephew, Edward Bernays. Bernays invented the pub...
E02
The Engineering of Consent
Air Date: 2002-03-24
The programme explores how those in power in post-war America used Freud's ideas about the unconscious mind to try an...
E03
There Is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads. He Must Be Destroyed
Air Date: 2002-03-31
In the 1960s, a radical group of psychotherapists challenged the influence of Freudian ideas in America. They were in...
E04
Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering
Air Date: 2002-04-07
How both the Labour Party in Britain and the Democrats in America have sought to gain power through use of the focus ...
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