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The Century of the Self Episode Guide
Happiness Machines
S1 Ep1
17th Mar 2002
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.
The Engineering of Consent
S1 Ep2
24th Mar 2002
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.
There Is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads. He Must Be Destroyed
S1 Ep3
31st Mar 2002
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.
Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering
S1 Ep4
7th Apr 2002
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.
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The first episode of The Century of the Self aired on March 17, 2002.
The last episode of The Century of the Self aired on April 07, 2002.
