The Century of the Self

Documentary in four episodes produced by Adam Curtis 2002

"This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." - Adam Curtis

A must see – I guarantee

The Century of the Self, Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self

The Century of the Self, BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/century_of_the_self.shtml

How Freud got under our skin, The Observer, Sunday 10 March 2002
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2002/mar/10/medicalscience.highereducation

The Unspoken Rule of Media Reporting: The BBC's The Century of the Self, Media Alert:
http://www.medialens.org/alerts/02/020403_de_Media_Century.html


Episode One: Happiness Machines



http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6718420906413643126&hl=en


Episode Two: The Engineering of Consent



http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-678466363224520614


Episode Three: There is a Policeman Inside All Our Head: He Must Be Destroyed



http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6111922724894802811


Episode Four: Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering



http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1122532358497501036


Edward Bernays (1891-1995)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays

Crowd psychology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_psychology

Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Le_Bon

- The Crowd; study of the popular mind
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/445

- The Psychology of Revolution
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/448

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud

- Dream Psychology
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15489

- Civilization and Its Discontents, 1929
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_and_its_Discontents
http://www.archive.org/details/CivilizationAndItsDiscontents

Anna Freud (1895–1982)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Freud

Counterculture of the 1960s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterculture_of_the_1960s

Werner Erhard (born 1935)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_H._Erhard

Erhard Seminars Training
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Seminars_Training

Landmark Education
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landmark_Education

Jürgen Habermas (born 1929)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jürgen_Habermas

Hippie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippies

Walter Lippmann (1889-1974)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Lippmann

Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/pbpnn10.txt

Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) 

Fritz Pearls (1893-1970)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Perls

Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957)

Jerry Rubin (1938–1994)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Rubin

Jacob Leib Talmon (1916–1980)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._L._Talmon

- The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origins_of_Totalitarian_Democracy

- Totalitarian democracy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarian_democracy

Youth International Party
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yippie