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DESCRIPTION:The Century of the Self \nby Adam Curtis \n\nThe evening begins with a 
 social hour and optional pot luck supper at 6:00 pm, \nfollowed by the film 
 at 7:30 pm, followed by a discussion at the end of the film. \n\nEpiside 3: 
 A Policeman is Inside our Heads \n\nEpisode Three of this extraordinary 
 intellectual masterpiece by Adam Curtis begins in the 1960s with a radical 
 group of psychotherapists challenging the influence of Freudian ideas in 
 America.  They were inspired by the ideas of Wilhelm Reich, a pupil of 
 Freud's, who had turned against him and was hated by the Freud family.  He 
 believed that the inner self did not need to be repressed and controlled.  
 It should be encouraged to express itself.  Out of this came a political 
 movement that sought to create new beings free of the psychological 
 conformity that had been implanted in people's minds by business and 
 politics.  This episode shows how this rapidly developed in America through 
 self-help movements like Werber Erhard's Erhard Seminar Training -- into 
 the irresistible rise of the expressive self: the Me Generation.  But the 
 American corporations soon realized 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 techniques developed by 
 Freudian psychoanalysts to read the inner desires of the new 
 self.\n\nWheelchair accessible around the corner at 411 28th Street \n\n$5 
 donations are accepted\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/07/18593534.php
SUMMARY:The Century of the Self: Episode 3
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street\nuptown Oakland, bwteeen Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/07/18593534.php
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