# The Century of the Self **Domain:** Documentary / Psychology / Consumer Culture **Doc Type:** Documentary Series Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Adam Curtis]], [[Edward Bernays]], [[Social Engineering]], [[Attention Economy]] --- ## Definition _The Century of the Self_ is Adam Curtis's 2002 BBC documentary series tracing how psychoanalytic ideas entered public relations, advertising and political management. ## Corpus Context The series supplies a genealogy for engineered desire and the shift from citizen to managed consumer. It connects [[Edward Bernays]] to [[Attention Economy]] and [[Nostalgia as Governance]]. ## Relationships [[Adam Curtis]], [[Edward Bernays]], [[Social Engineering]], [[Attention Economy]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]