“Century of egoism” based on Freud’s thoughts and the change of the new American system – Mehr News Agency | Iran and world’s news
According to Mehr News Agency, citing the public relations of Documentary Network, the film “Century of Narcissism” is about the psychoanalytical activities of Sigmund Freud and his daughter. Anna Freud as well Father PR, Edward Bernice It has focused and shows how Freud’s thoughts shaped the modern American system.
Adam Curtis In the first part of this series, he says: “This series is about how those in power use Freud’s theories to control the dangerous masses of society in the era of mass democracy.”
Using rarely seen old footage, the film explores the various ways governments and big business have used Sigmund Freud’s theories to manipulate people’s minds and behavior.
Freud and his niece Edward Bernays, who first used psychoanalytic techniques in the public relations profession, are the subject of the first part of this documentary, his daughter Anna, the pioneer of child psychoanalysis, forms the second part of the film, and in another part, some critics Freud is treated like Wilhelm Reich.
“Century of Egoism” raises a very deep question about the roots and methods of consumerism and human commodification (commodification) and its consequences.
This film criticizes the capitalist system from a historical and philosophical point of view, and mostly refers to the psychological roots of the changes in the capitalist system, especially the changes in the production and consumption system; How America used the ideas of Freud and his daughter to transform and manipulate people’s minds and thinking in order to incline the society’s consumption taste towards more profit for the capitalists.
This documentary tries to show the relationship between psychological manipulations in society’s tendencies and the economic and political system of America.
The Guardian newspaper in 2002, in a note by Tim Adams entitled “How Freud got under our skin” discussed the documentary “Century of Egoism” and pointed out: “Freud may have invented the ‘self’, something full of dreams and Unspoken wishes, but in 1900, it is his American niece who packaged it and put it on the market. Suddenly, everyone wants a copy of it, and of course, no one wants a copy that is exactly like someone else’s copy.”
This documentary is aired on Thursdays at 10:00 PM on the Documentary Network and is repeated the next day at 12:30 PM.