This multi-award winning BBC series "... 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, series Producer and Director). Covers the origins of "Public Relations", the influence of psychoanalysis on modern advertising and marketing techniques, consumerism and representative democracy.

Episode 1: Happiness Machines

Episode 2: The Engineering of Consent

Episode 3: There is a Policeman Inside All Our Head: He Must Be Destroyed

Episode 4: Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering

Links & References

• Wikipedia entry:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self