Adam Curtis’ acclaimed series examines the rise of the all-consuming self against the backdrop of the Freud dynasty.
Episode 1 – Happiness Machines
Episode 2 – The Engineering Of Consent
Episode 3 – There Is A Policeman Inside All Our Heads, He Must Be Destroyed
Episode 4 – Eight People Sipping Wine In Kettering
To many in both politics and business, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people. Certainly the people may feel they are in charge, but are they really? The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the United States. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests?
The Freud dynasty is at the heart of this compelling social history.
