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In the 1960s, a radical group of psychotherapists challenged 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 programme 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 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 techniques developed by Freudian psychoanalysts to read the inner desires of the new self.
It still boggles me the genious of Aldous Huxley. In 1932 he predicted the way society would be shaped to keep people in happy abundance and constant consumption of goods. The propagandists found their perfect opportunity in the "individuality" breakoff from the hippies movement.
holm81 9 months ago
this all about discovering the best ways in manipulating the people to BUY BUY BUY products preying on them like vultures. Again, categorizing them, labeling them, stereotyping them, etc
ilindah 10 months ago
we're all rebelling against conformity by buying all this stuff. We're so cool!
YouDonteverhavetodie 10 months ago
thnx for all the posts!!!
MrMinutemen 1 year ago