The Century of the Self

One of the best documentaries I’ve seen the past years. It is the story of how one of Freud’s relatives, the founder of “Public Relations”, took psychoanalysis and applied it to business and politics. It then takes you on a journey of how businesses and politicians realized the power of psychology to control and direct the populations to their own aims. A truly fascinating, eye-opening-get-out-of-the-matrix documentary, created by non other than the BBC, now available in its entirety on Google Videos, in four parts, posted below in order:

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