THE CENTURY OF THE SELF ': THE ENGINEERING OF CONSENT.
Watch on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E2DDA347703BCE6C
Adam Curtis documentary broadcast by the BBC in 2002.
"This is the story of how the ideas of Sigmund Freud on the unconscious mind were used by the powerful to control the masses in post-war. Politicians and planners came to believe Freud's just the conclusions, that hidden in the depths of human there would be dangerous and irrational desires and fears. were convinced that the issue of those instincts had led to the barbarism and Nazi Germany. risuccedesse To prevent that, they tried to find ways to control this enemy within the human mind. Protagonists of this story is the daughter of Sigmund Freud, Anna and her grandson Edward Barneys, the inventor of the professionalism of public relations. Their ideas were used by the U.S. government, by business and by the CIA to develop techniques to manage and control the minds of American citizens. The powerful believed that the only way in which democracy could work and create a stable society, was to repress the savage barbarism exists just beneath the surface of normal life. "
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