The Engineering of Consent

The Century of the Self

S01E02
E2
March 24, 2002 58 min

Overview

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.

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Adam Curtis

Adam Curtis

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Anne Bernays

Anne Bernays

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Martin Bergmann

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Robert Reich

Robert Reich

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Edward L. Bernays

Edward L. Bernays

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Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud

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Anna Freud

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Wilhelm Reich

Wilhelm Reich

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Tony Blair

Tony Blair

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Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher

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Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

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