The Century of The Self Part 3 There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads, He Must Be Destroyed
The Century of The Self Part 3 There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads, He Must Be Destroyed (Adam Curtis Documentary) Part 3 There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads, He Must Be Destroyed In the 1960s, a radical group of psychotherapists challenged the influence of Freudian ideas, which lead to the creation of a new political movement that sought to create new people, free of the psychological conformity that had been implanted in peoples minds by business and politics. This episode shows how this idea rapidly developed in America through selfhelp movements, into the irresistible rise of the expressive self: the Me Generation. Soon, American corporations realised that this new self was not a threat, but their greatest opportunity. It was in their interest to encourage people to feel they were unique individuals and then sell them ways to express that individuality. To do this, they turned to the techniques developed by Freudian psychoanalysts, to manipulate the inner desires of the new self.
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