《BBC:探求自我的世纪》观后感精选

　　《BBC:探求自我的世纪》是一部由亚当·柯蒂斯执导，Martin S. Bergmann / Tony Blair / Bill Clinton主演的一部纪录片类型的电影，特精心从网络上整理的一些观众的观后感，希望对大家能有帮助。

　　《BBC:探求自我的世纪》精选点评：

　　●非常有营养

　　●one of the best 汉语标题有点误导 请看英文标题

　　●这些理论剖析真的好有趣，让学过的历史政治经济学全都串联在了一起。这些古老的画面让我想到这些人都已暮年或者死去，好害怕死亡，死亡之后就无法成为这些实验的一部分或者是看纪录片的旁观者。

　　●人生处处是洗脑。政治、商业、个人生活等方方面面。

　　●P1 Happiness machines ；P2 The Engineering of Consent ；P3 There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads; He Must Be Destroyed ；P4 Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering

　　●太牛逼了，精神分析学、大众心理学、营销和公关、政治如何展现在两次世界大战的历史里，弗洛伊德、edward berneys，威尔士、胡佛、罗斯福，纳粹，福特公司。。。。。。联系都建立在人性（理性和非理性）的较量中

　　《BBC:探求自我的世纪》观后感(一)：現代社會的運作

　　.應該看「夢的解析」

　　《BBC:探求自我的世纪》观后感(二)：短评写不下了，放这里。

　　这个纪录片讲的是上个世纪弗洛伊德理论如何被商业所利用而使消费主义盛行——使人的欲求盖过他的必需，形成永远无法被满足的欲求文化，转而在政治领域被西方自由主义阵营的统治阶级所利用，关于商业与政治，甚至娱乐圈如何相互勾结、渗透，形成一种潜在思想统治，而上个世纪美国就用这一招轻而易举地发动了危地马拉政变。

　　同时，在美苏冷战期间，美国花费大量资源投入到心理学和精神病学的研究，甚至提出让精神病学家与政治家同时统治国家，当时马尔库塞清醒地认识到了这种伪饰，于是开始左倾；

　　如果精英统治集团通过这种方法操弄人心，那这些国家的人民（或者说世界公民）们不过是圈养的动物罢了。只可惜人类已经在这种环境中活了一百多年。

　　某种程度上说，20世纪人类社会的大转变得归功于弗洛伊德和马克思。

　　弗洛伊德被美英统治集团背后利用（难以被意识到的高级brainwash——「民主本來的原意為改變權力架構，但在Bernays 的眼中，是維持本來的權力架構。」），马克思被苏联公开践行，于是世界才裂成了资本主义阵营和社会主义阵营。

　　用纪录片提供的视角可以继续观察当下乃至未来，西方阵营如何操纵媒体和人的意识，所以并不过时。比如，本月英美阵营明目张胆地篡改二战历史（而且大部分人没有意识到自己对历史的认知有偏差）、把共产主义和纳粹相等同之类却又为大众所接受，就并不令人意外了。这是我以为这个片子对我意义深远的原因之一。

　　我们活在被各种势力构造的幻觉里，当今世界并没有什么真实可言。

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　　观看地址： https://www.youtube.com/watch？v=_9WH88Ehnvk&list=PLN9HSTnl_5uBW_9nqF_ymNtztzK1Tvm3H&index=1

　　《BBC:探求自我的世纪》观后感(三)：Manipulation

　　

EP1 Happiness Machine

人的原始驱动力确实是弗洛伊德的核心之一。如何调动人的潜意识，就是驾驭他人的根本手段了。

　　ropaganda不好，我们是Council of Public Relations；反对Smoking Women？我们可是象征着Torches of Freedom。人心玩弄起来真是有方法的，女人抽烟=more powerful and independent.

　　表达自我，其实看起来何尝不是一个伪命题。普罗大众被表达自我的想法捆绑，但是大家真正的表达自我？还是消费着自以为是的自欺欺人？民主，看来也是伪命题，为什么把全体人类的命运交付给愚蠢的全体人类呢。最多也就是民主代表，能够维持生计的样子。

EP2 The Engineering of Consent

　　Edward Bernays的宣传策略沿用至今。苏联/共产党的控制/侵略，美国民主/美国文化价值/美国国家安全被威胁，这些惯常的借口从冷战时期开始，几乎不变应用到现在。颠覆他国政权，一旦他国有一点不利于美国利益。老大哥在1984中不也就是这样？弗洛伊德，乔治奥威尔，在此交集。洗脑，在各个体系中呈现出来，最善于洗脑的人/国家往往就最能够成功，世界上最大的成功学=洗脑学。人作为一个个体是脆弱的，那么人类作为一个群体则是更加脆弱。如果做到convincing，如何构建他人的认可，从而塑造他人内心的价值观和取向，这就是engineering of consent.

　　Dr. Ewen Cameron的实验，其实就是《发条橙》，清除—植入—新人类。而人心人思，岂是这么容易和简单的。当然文化传播殖民，这是几十年来大家可见地，将美利坚转变成了真正的灯塔国。

EP3 Policeman Inside All Our Heads - He Must be Destroyed

　　我发现我刚刚开始看就有了偏见。Express ourselves在我看来，反而是混乱的根源？社会需要的，是人们以为自己都在Express themselves. 但是On a personal level, 我觉得适度释放自身的情绪，发泄“Libido”是有助于内心健康的，而且个人实践来说可能我还会更加倾向于此。宣誓自己对自己三元本体的主权，认可本能即是“我”的一个部分，而不是逃避害怕被动物本能控制。其实这是双标吧——我觉得这样我会很好，但是如果全世界都这样，那我觉得这可就不太好，因为这实际上是对群体而非个人的，潜在危险的举动。

　　而片中集会，真的就像邪教一般的视觉感受。认识 - 超越的这个过程是这个道理，而比如Racial Confrontation这种活动，我认为是本质上可行的理想主义，岂是人人真的都能够做到Transcend的？而转变修女的convention真是让我笑出来了，本来宗教“从业者”就严重压抑了自身的“力比多”，这一旦释放出来那真的是回不了头。

　　一层层剥开“我”，但是有没有想过，每一层层的“我”都是从出生至今，所有的社会的影响交集，形成了现在的“我”，根本就没有所谓的True Inner Self？或许有了这个想法，也可以真正的Be Free.

　　马斯洛需求原理我觉得是无需辩驳的，need，desire，都是层阶递进的。里根获取他人支持的方式，就是认识到不断增长的自我实现需求强烈的人群，来迎合这一群个体的self-actualization. 看，学着点吧。资本主义，也将“You are free to be whoever you want to be"的Creating Identify的概念，转变为了Buying Identify.

　　IDENTITY IS BECOMING ITS OWN CONSTRAIN. 这场斗争，以self-actualization最终”取胜“却被Capitalism收买而结束，像极了中学课本中"袁世凯窃取辛亥革命胜利果实"。或许，True Inner Self本身就是一个无从实现的伪命题。

EP4 Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering

　　内容貌似是紧接上一集的。

　　克林顿Re-Election拉选票就是让摇摆选民觉得，He is one of us, and one good version of us. 如果最后的政策只是为了争取摇摆选民，不是有些因小失大？

　　Consumerism is the way of giving people the illusion of control while allowing a responsible elite to continue managing society.

　　如果让民众来选，那就是更少的税+更好的社会服务基建=impossible. 民众只有desire，没有approach，这就是so-called democracy的困局。

　　《BBC:探求自我的世纪》观后感(四)：The Century of the Self 台词文本，太棒了，可以当论文好好研究

　　

Episode 1 .Happy Machines

西格蒙德•弗洛伊德提出了一种关于人性的新理论,他声称发现了原始的、性和侵略性的力量潜藏在人类的内心深处，这些力量如不加以控制就会导致个体和社会陷入混乱与毁灭。本系列节目讲述当权者运用弗洛伊德的理论，如何试图控制大众民主时代的危险人群，但故事的核心不仅仅是西格蒙德•弗洛伊德，还有他的其他家族成员。

　　A new theory about human nature was put forth by Sigmund Freud.He had discovered he said, primitive, sexual and aggressive forces hidden deep inside the minds of all human beings.Forces which if not controlled,led individuals and societies to chaos and destruction.This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy.But the heart of the story is not just Sigmund Freud but other members of the Freud family.

　　This episode is about Freud's American nephew, Edward Bernays.Bernays is almost completely unknown today but his influence on the 20th century was nearly as great as his uncles.Because Bernays was the first person to take Freud's idea about human beings and use them to manipulate the masses.He showed American corporations for the first time how to they could make people want things they didn't need by linking mass produced goods to their unconscious desires.Out of this would come a new political ideal of how to control the masses.By satisfying people's inner selfish desires one made them happy and thus docile.It was the start of the all-consuming self which has come to dominate our world today.

　　弗洛伊德“人类心智如何运作”的学说如今已广为社会接受，精神分析师也一样，每年的精神分析医师舞会都在维也纳一座宏伟的宫殿中举行。

　　Freud's ideas about how the human mind works have now become an accepted part of society.As have psychoanalysts.Every year the psychotherapists' ball is held in a grand palace in Vienna.

　　- 这就是精神治疗的舞会

　　This is the psychotherapy ball.

　　- 心理治疗师、康复中的病人和从前的患者都来了

　　ychotherapists come, some advanced patients come, former patients come,

　　阿尔弗雷德·弗里茨 世界精神治疗理事会主席

　　Dr. Alfred Fritz

　　- 还有一些来自维也纳上层社会的朋友

　　and many other people - friends, but also people from the Viennese society

　　- 那些喜欢参加愉快、优雅、舒适的舞会的人

　　who like to come to a nice, elegant, comfortable ball.

　　但是情况并非一直如此，一百年前，弗洛伊德的思想被维也纳上层社会所痛恨，那时的维也纳，是中欧大帝国的统治中心。对于掌权的哈布斯堡家族来说，弗洛伊德的思想不仅让人难堪，且“审视和分析人的内心感受”这一理念，也是对他们绝对统治对威胁

　　ut it was not always so.A hundred years ago Freud's ideas were hated by Viennese society.At that time Vienna was the center of a vast empire ruling central Europe.And to the powerful nobility of the Habsburg accord,Freud's ideas were not only embarrassing,but the very idea of examining and analyzing ones inner feelings was a threat to their absolute control.

　　- 你看着那时的掌权者

　　You see at that time these people had the power

　　- 极端情绪是不许被表达的，我意思是你就是不能

　　and of course you just weren't allowed to show your bloody feelings, I mean you just couldn't.

　　- 如果你不高兴了，你想象一下

　　You know if you were unhappy, can you imagine,

　　康斯坦丝·厄齐·卡罗伊（布达佩斯）

　　Countess Erzie Karolyi

　　- 比如你在这个国家的某地，某个城堡里 沮丧无比，你是个女人

　　for instance you sit somewhere in the country, in a castle, you are deeply unhappy, you are a woman;

　　- 你不能去侍女的肩膀上哭

　　you couldn't go to your maid and cry on her shoulders,

　　- 不能跑到村子里，去发泄你的感受

　　you couldn't go into the village and complain about your feelings,

　　- 那就像是你被卖给了某人，你就是不能这样做

　　it was like selling yourself to someone, you just couldn't. You know？

　　- 知道吧

　　You know？

　　- 因为他们不得不尊重你

　　ecause they had to respect you.

　　- 当然了，弗洛伊德，他质疑这种想法

　　ow of course, Freud, he put that thought very much into question

　　- 你开始检视自己，不得不开始质疑其他事

　　you see to examine yourself you would have to put other things into question

　　- 你的社交圈、你周围的一切...

　　your society, everything that surrounds you and that was not a good thing at that time.

　　- 这在当时可不是件好事

　　and that was not a good thing at that time.

　　- 为什么不是？

　　Why not？

　　- 因为你自己创造的帝国在某种程度上早已分崩离析了

　　ecause your self-created empire to a certain extent would have fallen to bits much earlier already.

　　但让帝国统治者更害怕的是，弗洛伊德所说，那些危险的，潜伏在人们内部的驱动本能。弗洛伊德设计了一种方法，他称之为精神分析法，通过分析梦境和挖掘其关联，他声称：强大的性欲和侵略性，是我们源自兽性的残留，感情被压制，因为它们太危险。

　　ut what frightened the rulers of the empire even more was Freud's idea that hidden inside all human beings were dangerous instinctual drives.Freud had devised a method he called psychoanalysis.By analyzing dreams and free association he had unearthed he said powerful sexual and aggressive forces which were the remnants of our animal past.Feelings we repressed because they were too dangerous.

　　- 弗洛伊德设计了一个方法来探索心灵的隐藏部分

　　Freud devised a method for exploring the hidden part of the mind

　　厄内斯特·琼斯 弗洛伊德的同事

　　Dr. Earnest Jones

　　- 如今我们称之为潜意识

　　which we nowadays call the unconscious

　　- 对我们的意识部分来说，它是完全未知的

　　this the part is totally unknown to our consciousness.

　　- 在我们的心灵中存在着一道屏障，它抑制了That there exists a barrier in all our minds which prevents

　　- 源自潜意识的那些隐藏的、不受欢迎的冲动显现

　　these hidden and unwelcome impulses from the unconscious from emerging.

　　1914年奥匈帝国导致欧洲进入战争。随着战况加剧，弗洛伊德觉得这正是他理论的可怕证据。最悲惨的就是，他写道，果然不出所料，人们这些举动正是我们的精神分析学有所预料的，政府解开了人类的原始驱力的束缚，似乎却没人知道该如何阻止它。

　　In 1914 the Austria-Hungarian Empire led Europe into war.As the horror mounted Freud saw it as terrible evidence of the truth of his findings.The saddest thing he wrote, is that, this is exactly the way we should have expected people to behave, from our knowledge of psychoanalysis.Governments had unleashed the primitive forces in humans beings and no one seemed to know how to stop them.

　　此时，弗洛伊德的年轻外甥爱德华•伯奈斯，正在美国从事发言人的工作。他的主要客户是世界著名男高音卡鲁索，当时他正在美国巡回演出。伯奈斯的父母在20年前移民美国，但他和自己的舅舅保持着联系他们曾一起在阿尔卑斯渡假。现在伯奈斯因为特殊原因返回欧洲，卡鲁索在俄亥俄州托勒多的开唱之夜，美国对德国和奥地利宣战。为了筹备战事，美国政府成立了一个公共信息委员会，伯奈斯受雇在媒体上宣扬美国参战的目的。伍德罗•威尔逊总统宣布，美国不是为了复兴古老的帝国而战而是为了给整个欧洲带来民主，伯奈斯将此理念相当巧妙地散播于国内外。在战争末期，他受命陪同总统出席巴黎和会

　　At that time, Freud's young nephew, Edward Bernays was working as a press agent in America.His main client was the world famous opera singer Caruso who was touring the United States.Bernays' parents had emigrated to America 20 years before,but he kept in touch with his Uncle who joined him for Holidays in the Alps.But Bernays was now about to return to Europe for a very different reason.On the night that Caruso opened in Toledo Ohio America announced that it was entering the war against Germany and Austria.As a part of the war effort, the US government set up a committee on public information and Bernays was employed to promote America's war aims in the press.The president Woodrow Wilson, had announced that the United States would fight not to restore the old empires but to bring democracy to all of Europe.Bernays proved extremely skillful at promoting this idea both at home and abroad and at the end of the war was asked to accompany the President to the Paris Peace Conference.

　　爱德华·伯奈斯（1991年）

　　Edward Bernays

　　- 当时出乎我的意料

　　Then to my surprise

　　- 他们要求我和伍德罗•威尔逊一起参加巴黎和会

　　they asked me to go with Woodrow Wilson to the peace conference.

　　- 在26岁这个年纪，整个和谈期间我都在巴黎

　　And at the age of 26 I was in Paris for the entire time of the peace conference

　　- 会议在巴黎郊区举行

　　that was held in the suburb of Paris

　　- 我们致力于为民主创造一个安全的世界

　　and we worked to make the world safe for democracy.

　　- 这是巨大的宣传语

　　That was the big slogan.

　　威尔逊在巴黎的欢迎仪式，震惊了伯奈斯等美国宣传者。他们的宣传活动把威尔逊描绘成一位解放者，这个人将创造一个新的世界，这个世界里个人将是自由的，他们把他打造成一位大众英雄。而当看着围绕威尔逊的汹涌人潮时，伯奈斯开始自问，是否有可能在和平时期也制造出同样的群众信念呢？

　　Wilson's reception in Paris astounded Bernays and the other American propagandists.Their propaganda has portrayed Wilson as a liberator of the people.The man who would create a new world in which the individual would be free.They had made him a hero of the masses.And as he watched the crowd surge around Wilson,Bernays began to wonder whether it would be possible to do the same type of mass persuasion, but in peace time.

　　- 当我回到美国，我决定了

　　When I came back to the United States, I decided

　　- 如果你能在战争时期使用宣传

　　that if you could use propaganda for war

　　- 那么和平年代当然也可以用

　　you could certainly use it for peace.

　　- 宣传已经变成一个糟糕的词，因为它被德国人用了

　　And propaganda got to be a bad word because of the Germans using it.

　　- 我要做的是试图找到其他用语

　　o what I did was try to find some other words

　　- 所以我们发明了“公共关系部”

　　o we found the word "Council on Public Relations".

　　伯奈斯回到纽约，在百老汇的一间小办公室里开业，成了一位公共关系员，这是此术语首次被使用。19世纪末以来，美国已经成为了大型工业社会，几百万人聚居在城市里，伯奈斯决定寻找一种方法来管理和改变这些新社群的思考和感受。为此，他转向了舅舅西格蒙德的作品。在巴黎时，伯奈斯送了舅舅一份礼物：一些哈瓦那雪茄。弗洛伊德给了他一本自己的著作 《精神分析简介》的副本作为回礼。伯奈斯阅读了它，隐藏在人类内部的非理性驱力图景让他着迷，他自问，是否可以靠潜意识的操控来赚钱呢？

　　ernays returned to New York and set up as a Public Relations Councilman in small office off Broadway.It was the first time the term had even been used.Since the end of the 19th century, America had become a mass industrial society with millions clustered together in the cities.Bernays was determined to find a way to manage and alter the way these new crowds thought and felt.To do this he turned to the writings of his Uncle Sigmund.While in Paris Bernays had sent his Uncle a gift of some Havana cigars.In return Freud had sent him a copy of his "General Introduction to Psychoanalysis".Bernays read it,and the picture of hidden irrational forces inside human beings, fascinated him.He wondered whether he might make money by manipulation of the unconscious.

　　帕特·杰克逊 公共关系顾问、伯奈斯的同事

　　at · Jackson

　　- 埃迪从弗洛依德那获取的真正思想就是

　　What Eddie got from Freud, was indeed this idea

　　- 人类的决策是一个很复杂的过程

　　that there is a lot more going on in human decision making.

　　- 不仅是个人之间，更重要的是在群体之间

　　ot only among individuals but even more importantly among groups

　　- 这种思想信息驱使着行为

　　that this idea that information drives behavior.

　　- 所以埃迪开始形成这个想法

　　o Eddie began to formulate this idea

　　- 你必须去观察那些，会影响人们非理性情绪的东西

　　that you had to look at things that will play to people's irrational emotions.

　　- 这让埃迪从他的同僚当中迅速脱颖而出

　　You see, that moved Eddie immediately into a different category from other people in his field

　　- 那时，大多数政府官员和经理们认为

　　and most government officials and managers of the day

　　- 只要你用事实资料就能说服人们

　　who thought if you just hit people with all this factual information

　　- 人们会看看这些资料，然后说我们干吧

　　they would look at that say go of course

　　- 而埃迪知道，那不是世界运作的方式

　　and Eddie knew that was not the way the world worked.

　　伯奈斯开始对大众阶层展开心理试验，他最富戏剧性的实验是劝说妇女吸烟，那时候女性吸烟是种禁忌，而他的早期客户之一，美国烟草公司主席乔治•希尔让伯奈斯想办法打破这一禁忌。

　　ernays set out to experiment with the minds of the popular classes.His most dramatic experiment was to persuade women to smoke.At that time there was a taboo against women smoking and one of his early clients George Hill, the President of the American Tobacco corporation asked Bernays to find a way of breaking it.

　　- 他说我们失去了半个市场

　　He says we're losing half of our market.

　　- 就因为男人视女性在公共场合吸烟为禁忌

　　ecause men have invoked a taboo against women smoking in public.

　　- 你能做点什么？我说让我考虑一下

　　Can you do anything about that？ I said let me think about it.

　　- 然后我说，请允许我去找一位精神分析学家

　　And then I said: If I may have permission to see a psychoanalyst

　　- 看看香烟对女性意味着什么

　　to find out what cigarettes mean to women.

　　- 他说这要花费多少？ 于是我请来布里尔医生

　　He said: what'll cost？ So I called up Dr. Brille,

　　- A.A.布里尔是当时纽约首屈一指的精神分析师

　　A.A. Brille, who was the leading psychoanalyst in New York at the time.

　　- 你怎么不请你的舅舅？为什么？

　　How come you didn't call your uncle？ Why didn'y you call your uncle？

　　- 因为他在维也纳

　　Cause he was in Vienna..

　　A.A.布里尔是美国最早的精神分析师之一，为了巨额酬金，他告诉伯奈斯，香烟是阴茎的一种象征，就像男人的性权力。他对伯奈斯说，假如能找到一种方法把香烟和挑战男性权力联系起来，那么女人就会吸烟，因此她们便有了自己的“阴茎”。

　　每年纽约都有成千上万的人参加复活节游行，伯奈斯决定在此策划一个事件，他劝说一些初入社交圈的富家女把香烟藏在衣服下，然后她们去参加游行，一旦伯奈斯发出信号，她们就会戏剧性的点起香烟。伯奈斯然后告知报社，他听说一些女权运动者，准备点燃她们的“自由火炬”以为抗议。

　　A.A. Brille was one of the first psychoanalysts in America.And for a large fee, he told Bernays that cigarettes were a symbol of the penis and of male sexual power.He told Bernays that if he could find a way to connect cigarettes with the idea of challenging male power then women would smoke, because then they would have their own penises.

　　Every year New York held an Easter day parade to which thousands came.And Bernays decided to stage an event there.He persuaded a group of rich debutants to hide cigarettes under their clothes.Then, they should join the parade and at a given signal from him they were to light up the cigarettes dramatically.Bernays then informed the press that he had heard that a group of suffragettes were preparing to protest by lighting up what they called torches of freedom.

　　- 他知道这将引起强烈抗议

　　He knew this would be an outcry,

　　- 也知道所有摄影师会在那儿抓拍这一瞬间

　　and he knew that all of the photographers would be there to capture this moment

　　- 所以他准备了一个短语：自由火炬

　　o he was ready with a phrase which was "torches of freedom".

　　- 这就成了一个标志

　　o here you have a symbol,

　　- 女人，年轻女人，公共场所抽烟的富家女

　　women, young women, debutantes,

　　- 与这个短语联系了起来

　　moking a cigarette in public with a phrase

　　- 这就意味着，假如你相信男女是平等的

　　that means anybody who believes in this kind of equality

　　- 那就必须在随后而来的争论中支持她们

　　retty much has to support them in the ensuing debate about this,

　　- 因为“自由火炬”

　　ecause... "torches of freedom".

　　- 你说它出现在美国硬币上？ 那是自由，而她正举着火炬，看到吗？

　　I mean, What's on all our American coins？ it's liberty, she's holding up the torch, you see？

　　- 于是一切就绪，这里有情感、有记忆、还有理性短语

　　and so all of this is there together, there's emotion, there's memory and there's a rational phrase,

　　- 就算掺杂了大量情感，有个短语还是起着理性作用的

　　even knowing it's using a lot of emotionall, it's a phrase that works in a rational sense...

　　- 而这些东西聚在一起时...

　　And all of this is together...

　　- 这事明天就不只是出现在纽约的报纸上了

　　And So the next day this was not just in all the New York papers

　　- 而是要风靡整个美国和全世界

　　it was across the United States and around the world.

　　- 由于这种观点的散播，香烟的妇女销售额开始上升

　　And from that point forward the sale of cigarettes to woman began to rise.

　　- 他只通过一个简单的象征性行为便让这点为社会所接受

　　He had made them socially acceptable with a single symbolic act.

　　伯奈斯创造的想法就是女人吸烟会让她变得更有权力和独立，今天这种想法仍然存在。这使他意识到，说服人们做出非理性的行为是可能的只要你把他们的情绪、欲求与产品相联系的话，“吸烟使女人更自由”其实是完全荒谬的。但那能让她们感觉更独立，那意味着无关紧要的事物有可能成为象征你权威感的标志.

　　What Bernays had created was the idea that if a women smoked it made her more powerful and independent.An idea that still persists today.It made him realize that it was possible to persuade people to behave irrationally if you link products to their emotional desires and feelings.The idea that smoking actually made women freer, was completely irrational.But it made them feel more independent.It meant that irrelevant objects could become powerful emotional symbols of how you wanted to be seen by others.

　　- 埃迪•伯奈斯看到了销售产品的方法

　　ernays saw the way to sell product

　　彼得·施特劳斯 伯奈斯的雇员

　　eter Strauss 1948-1952

　　- 它并非是向你的理智销售

　　was not to sell it to your intellect,

　　- 不是说你应该购买一部汽车

　　that you ought to buy an automobile,

　　- 而是告诉你，如果有一辆汽车你会感觉更好

　　ut that you will feel better about it if you have this automobile.

　　- 我认为这是他原创的思想，即他们不仅是买了东西

　　I think he originated that idea, that they weren't just purchasing something

　　- 而且还在该产品或服务中投入了个人情感

　　that they were engaging themselves emotionally or personally in that product or service.

　　- 不是你认为你需要一件新衣服

　　It's not that you think you need a new piece of clothing

　　- 而是你得到一件衣服会感觉更好

　　ut you will feel better with the piece of clothing.

　　- 从某种意义上说，这是他的贡献

　　That was his contribution in a very real sense.

　　- 如今它随处可见，但我想那是伯奈斯的原创

　　We see it all over the place today, but I think he originated the idea,

　　- 将产品或服务与情感相联系

　　the emotional connect to a product or service.

　　伯奈斯的工作让美国的公司为之着迷，这些公司从战争中获取财富和权力，但也有成长的烦恼。大规模生产体系在战争期间十分繁荣，但现在几百万的商品被撤下生产线，因为他们害怕生产过剩的危险，总有一天，当人们拥有足够的商品时就会停止购买，在此之前，多数产品仍需要向大众出售。虽然富人早已惯于使用奢侈品，但对于数百万美国工薪阶层来说多数产品仍被宣传为必需品，诸如鞋子，袜子，甚至汽车这样的商品都以其持久耐用的功能而促销。广告的目的仅仅是向人们展示产品的实用价值，仅此而已。商家们意识到他们必须要做的是改变多数美国人对于商品的思维方式。

　　What Bernays was doing fascinated America's corporations.They had come out of the war rich and powerful, but they had a growing worry.The system of mass production had flourished during the war and now millions of goods were pouring off production lines.Whatthey were frightened of was the danger of overproduction,that there would come a point when people had enough goods and would simply stop buying.Up until that point, the majority of products were still sold to the masses on the basis of need.While the rich had long been used to luxury goods,for the millions of working class Americans most products were still advertised as necessities.Goods like shoes, stockings, even cars were promoted in functiosnal terms, for their durability.The aim of the advertisements were simply to shown people the products practical virtues, nothing more.What the corporations realized they had to do was transform the way the majority of Americans thought about products.

　　One leading Wall Street banker, Paul Mazer of Leahman Brothers was clear about what was necessary.We must shift America, he wrote, from a needs, to a desires culture.People must be trained to desire, to want new things even before the old had been entirely consumed.We must shape a new mentality in America.Man's desires must overshadow his needs.

　　- 在那之前

　　rior to that time

　　彼得·所罗门 莱曼兄弟投资银行家

　　eter Solomon

　　- 不存在美国消费者，只有美国工人和美国业主

　　there was no American consumer, there was the American worker, and there was the American owner.

　　- 他们生产、储蓄、吃必需品，按基本需要购物

　　And they manufactured, and they saved and they ate what they had to and the people shopped for what they needed.

　　- 少数富人可能会购买他们不必需的东西

　　And while the very rich may have bought things they didn't need, most people did not.

　　- 但大多数人都不会这样

　　most people did not.

　　- 梅泽尔想打破这一局面

　　And Mazer envisioned a break with that,

　　- 让你想要实际上不必需的东西你想要，而非必要

　　where you would have things that you didn't actually need, but you wanted, as opposed to needed.

　　而为商家改变社会心态的关键人物，就是爱德华•伯奈斯。

　　And the man who would be at the center of changing that mentality for the corporations,

　　was Edward Bernays.

　　斯图尔特·埃文 公共关系史学家

　　tuart Ewen

　　- 伯奈斯确实是美国之内少有的

　　ernays really is the guy within the United States,more then anybody else

　　- 从商家的角度把心理学理论用到实处

　　who sort of brings out to the table psychological theory as something that is an essential part

　　- 作为必要方法高效吸引大众的人

　　of how, from the corporate side, of how we are going to appeal to the masses effectively

　　- 而整个商品机构和销售机构

　　and the whole sort of merchandising establishment and the sales establishment

　　- 都为西格蒙德 • 弗洛伊德准备好了

　　is ready for Sigmund Freud.

　　- 我是说他们已准备好去理解人类的心理动机是什么

　　I mean they are ready for understanding what motivates the human mind.

　　- 所以这才是伯奈斯的技巧被用于向大众销售产品的真正开始

　　And so there's this real openness to Bernays techniques being used to sell products to the masses.

　　20世纪初的开始，纽约银行资助，创建了遍布美国的连锁百货商场，它们将成为大批量产品的销售渠道，而伯奈斯的工作就是制造新型顾客。他开始创造许多至今仍在使用的说服大众消费者的技术。

　　他受雇于威廉•兰道夫•赫斯特，促销其新版妇女杂志，伯奈斯通过投放文章和广告来美化它们，将其他客户的产品与电影明星联系到一起，如著名电影明星克拉拉•鲍，她也是他的客户，伯奈斯也开始将产品植入电影。他让明星们在首映式上，穿着他所在的其他公司的衣服和珠宝。

　　他宣称自己是第一个告诉汽车公司，可以把汽车作为男性的性能力标志来销售的人，他雇佣心理学家发表报告，宣称产品对你有益，并假装他们是在做独立研究。

　　他在百货公司组织时装秀，并付钱让名人们重复一个全新而重要的讯息，你买东西不仅是为需要，而是为了向他人展示自我内涵。

　　eginning in the early 20's the New York banks funded the creation of chains of department stores across America.They were to be the outlets for the mass produced goods.And Bernays' job was to produce the new type of customer.Bernays began to create many of the techniques of mass consumer persuasion that we now live with.

　　He was employed by William Randolph Hurst to promote his new women's magazines,and Bernays glamorized them by placing articles and advertisements that linked products made by others of his clientsto famous film stars like Clara Bow, who was also his client.

　　ernays also began the practice of product placement in movies,and he dressed the stars at the films premieres with clothes and jewelry from other firms he represented.

　　He was, he claimed, the first person to tell car companies.They could sell cars as symbols of male sexuality.He employed psychologists to issue reports that said products were good for you and then pretended they were independent studies.He organized fashion shows in department stores

　　and paid celebrities to repeat the new and essential message,you bought things not just for need but to express your inner sense of your self to others.

　　斯蒂尔曼夫人 20年代著名飞行家

　　Mrs. Stillman

　　-这里是一种穿衣心理学，你想过没有？

　　There's a psychology of dress,have you ever thought about it？

　　-怎样才能表达你的个性？

　　How it can express your character？

　　-你们都具有趣味的个性，但有些被掩盖住了

　　You all have interesting characters but some of them are all hidden.

　　-我很好奇为什么你们总是穿的一样同样的帽子，同样的外套

　　I wonder why you all want to dress always the same, with the same hats and the same coats.

　　-我相信你们所有人都很有趣，都有自己的优点

　　I'm sure all of you are interesting and have wonderful things about you,

　　-但是看看你在街上的样子

　　ut looking at you in the street

　　-你们看起来都差不多

　　you all look so much the same.

　　-这就是为什么我要和你们谈论穿衣心理学

　　And that's why I'm talking to you about the psychology of dress.

　　-试着在服装上更好地表达你自己

　　Try and express yourselves better in your dress.

　　-展现出你认为被掩盖的东西

　　ring out certain things that you think are hidden.

　　-我想知道你们是否从这个角度思考过你的个性

　　I wonder if you've thought about this angle of your personality.

　　-我想问你些问题…为什么你喜欢短裙？

　　I'd like to ask you some questions...Why do you like short skirts？

　　-哦，因为那样可以看到更多...

　　Oh, because there's more to see...

　　-看到更多？这么做有什么好处呢？

　　More to see, eh？ What good does that do you？

　　- 那让你变得更有吸引力 - 真的吗？

　　- It makes you more attractive. - oh, it does？

　　1927年，一位美国记者写道，有种变化已经影响到我们的民主，它叫做“消费主义”，美国人对于国家的首要性，现已不再是公民，而是它的消费者。

　　不断增长的消费主义浪潮，反过来催生了股票市场的繁荣，而爱德华•伯奈斯再次参与其中，提倡普通人应该购买股票的新观念，还包括从银行贷款消费。数百万人再一次听从了他的建议

　　In 1927 an American journalist wrote:A change has come over our democracy,it is called consumptionism.The American citizens first importance to his country is now no longer that of citizen,but that of consumer.

　　The growing wave of consumerism helped in turn to create a stock market boom.And yet again Edward Bernays became involved.Promoting the novel idea that ordinary people should buy shares,borrowing money from banks, that he also represented.And yet again, millions followed his advice.

　　- 他对人群有着独道的见解

　　He was uniquely knowledgeable about

　　彼得 · 施特劳斯 Bernays的雇员

　　eter Strauss - 1948-1952

　　- 即大众对于产品和想法如何反应

　　how people in large numbers are going to react to products and ideas,

　　- 但在实际上，如果他出门

　　ut in practical terms if he were to go out

　　- 我无法想象他能让三个人好好听他说话

　　I can't imagine he could get three people to stand and listen.

　　- 他不太善于表达，看上去还有点滑稽

　　He wasn't particularly articulate, he was kind of funny looking,

　　- 他没有一对一进行沟通的能力，完全没有

　　and didn't have any sense of reaching out for people one on one. None at all.

　　- 他不谈论、不考虑团体中的个人

　　He didn't talk about, didn't think about people in groups of one,

　　- 他考虑的是团体中的千万人

　　he thought about people in groups of thousands.

　　伯奈斯很快便以深谙大众心理而闻名。1924年总统联系了他，柯立芝总统是一位寡言少语的人，而且成了全国的笑柄，报纸把他描绘成一位乏味呆板的人物。伯奈斯的解决方案就跟他对产品所做的一样，他说服了34位著名影星访问白宫，这是政治首次涉及到了公共关系。

　　ernays soon became famous as the man who understood the mind of the crowd,and in 1924 the President contacted him.President Coolidge was a quiet taciturn man and had become a national joke.The press portrayed him as a dull humorless figure.Bernays' solution was to do exactly the same as he had done with products.He persuaded 34 famous film stars to visit the White House,and for the first time politics became involved with public relations.

　　- 我让这34个人站成一排，我问“你叫什么名字？”

　　And I lined up these 34 people and I'd say what's your name,

　　- 他说“艾尔•乔尔森”我说“总统先生，艾尔•乔尔森”

　　and he'd say Al Jolson, and I'd say Mr. President, Al Jolson.

　　- 第二天美国所有的报纸都有了头版故事

　　The next day every newspaper in the United States had a front page story:

　　-“柯立芝总统在白宫招待了演员”

　　quot;President Coolidge Entertains Actors at White House".

　　- 时代周刊的头条则说“总统几乎笑了”

　　And the Times had a headline which said "President Nearly Laughed"

　　- 皆大欢喜

　　and everybody was happy.

　　当伯奈斯在美国名利双收时，他在维也纳的舅舅正面临灾祸。如同欧洲大部分地区一样，维也纳正遭受一场经济危机，剧烈的通货膨胀摧毁了弗洛伊德所有的储蓄。面对破产，他写信给外甥寻求帮助。作为回应，伯奈斯安排弗洛伊德的著作在美国首次出版，并寄给舅舅许多宝贵的美元被弗洛伊德秘密存入外国银行的账户

　　ut while Bernays became rich and powerful in nAmerica, in Vienna his uncle was facing disaster.

　　Like much of Europe Vienna was suffering an economic crisis and massive inflation which wiped out all of Freud's' savings.Facing bankruptcy he wrote to his nephew for help.Bernays responded by arranging for Freud's works to be published for the first time in America,and began to send his uncle precious dollars which Freud kept secretly in a foreign bank account.

　　- 他是弗洛伊德的代理人

　　He was Freud's "agent"

　　- 假如你愿意，让他的书出版

　　if you will, to get his books published.

　　- 那么当然了，一旦书开始印刷

　　Well of course, once the books were being published,

　　- 埃迪就控制不了自己去促销这些书

　　Eddie couldn't help himself but to promote these books;

　　- 让每个人都去读，让它充满争议

　　ee that everybody read them, make them controversial;

　　- 而且强调“你知道弗洛伊德是如何谈性的吗？"

　　emphasize the fact that "do you know what Freud says about sex？"

　　- 还有他认为香烟象征着什么，诸如此类

　　and what he thinks cigarettes are a symbol of and so on and so forth...

　　- 你以为这些事是怎么传开的？

　　How do you suppose all those stories got out？

　　- 学者们当然不会在国内传播这些，但埃迪 • 伯奈斯会...

　　Certainly the academics weren't spreading these around the country, Eddie Bernays was...

　　- 而当弗洛伊德已被接受

　　Then when Freud became accepted,

　　- 接下来就能顺理成章地去见“西格舅舅”的客户了

　　well then of course to go to a client and go well‘Uncle Siggy'

　　- 看，然后就有收获了

　　ee then that had some cache.

　　- 注意，埃迪先在美国首创了“西格舅舅”并让大家接受

　　ut notice there, first Eddie created Uncle Siggy in the US, made him acceptable secondly,

　　- 然后再从中获益

　　and thirdly then, capitalized on Uncle Siggy.

　　- 典型的伯奈斯式做法

　　Typical Bernays performance.

　　伯奈斯也劝说弗洛伊德在美国推销他自己，他建议舅舅为自己代表的《世界见闻》杂志写篇文章，题为“女人在家庭中的精神位置”。弗洛伊德很愤怒，他说这简直难以想象，不管怎样都很粗俗，他讨厌美国。

　　弗洛伊德对人性变得越发悲观，20年代中期，他在夏天避居到阿尔卑斯山，有时住在贝希特斯加登的一家莫里茨养老院中，现在那里已是废墟。弗洛伊德开始写作有关群体行为的书，关于人类潜意识的侵略性力量，在群体中有多么容易被触发。

　　弗洛伊德相信，他过去低估了人类内在的侵略本能，它们远比他预想的危险

　　ernays also suggested Freud promote himself in the United States.He proposed his uncle write an article for Cosmopolitan, the magazine that Bernays represented,entitled 'A Woman's Mental Place in the Home'.Freud was furious. Such an idea he said was unthinkable,it was vulgar and anyway, he hated America.

　　Freud was becoming increasingly pessimistic about human beings.In the mid 20s he retreated in the summers to the Alps,sometimes staying in an old hotel, the Pension Moritz in Berchtesgaden.

　　It is now a ruin.Freud began to write about group behavior;about how easily the unconscious aggressive forces of human beingscould be triggered when they were in crowds.

　　Freud believed he had underestimated the aggressive instincts within human beings;they were far more dangerous than he had originally thought.

　　- 第一次世界大战后，弗洛伊德基本上是个悲观主义者

　　After World War-I, Freud was basically a pessimist.

　　恩内斯特·费登 维也纳精神分析师

　　Dr. Ernst Federn

　　- 他觉得人类是一种不可思议的生物

　　He felt that man is an impossible creature

　　- 一个非常残忍恶劣的物种

　　and a very sadistic and bad species

　　- 他不相信人类能够进步

　　and did not believe that man can be improved.

　　- 人是一种残暴的动物

　　Man is a ferocious animal,

　　- 是现存的最残忍的物种

　　the most ferocious animal that exists.

　　- 他们享受折磨和杀戮

　　They enjoy torturing and killing

　　- 他不喜欢人类

　　and he didn't like man.

　　20世纪20年代，弗洛伊德的著作在美国，对记者和知识分子有着巨大的影响。弗洛伊德所描绘的画面让他们既着迷又害怕，那些隐含的危险力量就潜伏在现代社会的表象之下。这种力量很容易喷发，甚至造出有力量摧毁政府的暴徒，他们相信俄国发生的事就是这样的，对许多人来说，这意味着大众民主的指导原则之一是错误的，即确信人类可以在理性的基础上做出决定。

　　首屈一指的政治作者沃尔特•李普曼争辩说，如果人类真是被潜意识、非理性力量所驱使的话，那就有必要重新考虑民主了。我们需要的是一个新精英阶层来管理他所说的“混乱的兽群”，这可以通过控制大众潜意识感受的心理学技术来实现。

　　The publication of Freud's works in America

　　had an extraordinary effect on journalists and intellectuals in the 1920s.

　　What fascinated and frightened them was the picture Freud painted of submerged dangerous forces

　　lurking just under the surface of modern society.

　　Forces that could erupt easily to produce the frenzied mob which had the power to destroy even governments.

　　It was this they believed had happened in Russia.

　　To many this meant one of the guiding principles of mass democracy was wrong;

　　the belief that human beings could be trusted to make decisions on a rational basis.

　　The leading political writer, Walter Lippmann argued that

　　if human beings were in reality driven by unconscious irrational forces

　　then it was necessary to re-think democracy.

　　What was needed was a new elite that could manage what he called the bewildered herd.

　　This would be done through psychological techniques that would control the unconscious feelings of the masses.

　　- 你该听说过沃尔特 • 李普曼

　　And so here you have Walter Lippmann,

　　- 他可能是美国最有影响力的政治思想家

　　robably the most influential political thinker in the United States,

　　- 他的基本观点是，大众的基本心理机制是无由的

　　who is essentially saying the basic mechanism of the mass mind is unreason,

　　- 非理性的，兽性的

　　is irrationality, is animality.

　　- 他相信街上的暴徒是受他们的脊髓神经驱使

　　He believes that the mob in the street, which is how he sees ordinary people,

　　- 而不是受理智驱使，这就是他眼中的普通人

　　are people who are driven not by their minds but by their spinal chords.

　　- 兽性本能、潜意识和本能的驱力这些概念

　　The notion of animal drives, unconscious and instinctual drives,

　　- 潜伏在文明世界的表象之下

　　lurking beneath the surface of civilization;

　　- 于是他们开始期待于心理学科

　　and so they started looking towards psychological science

　　- 将其作为理解大众心理运作的途径

　　as a way of understanding the mechanisms by which the popular mind works

　　- 目的尤其是，如何能理解它们

　　ecifically with the goal of figuring out

　　- 并将机制应用于社会控制的策略

　　how to understand and how to apply those mechanisms to strategies for social control.

　　爱德华•伯奈斯对李普曼的论点很感兴趣，而且发现了一个利用它们推销自己的方法。20世纪20年代时，他开始写一系列书籍，宣称他已经发展出李普曼所需求的技术，通过刺激人们的内在欲求，然后用消费品满足他们。他正在创建一种新方法来控制大众的非理性力量，他称之为“求同工程”。

　　Edward Bernays was fascinated by Lippmann's arguments and also saw a way to promote himself by using them.In the 1920s he began to write a series of books which argued that he had developed the very techniques that Lippmann was calling for.By stimulating people's inner desires and then sating them with consumer products he was creating a new way to manage the irrational force of the masses.He called it "The engineering of consent".

　　- 民主对于我父亲是一个神奇的概念

　　Democracy to my father was a wonderful concept,

　　安·伯奈斯 伯奈斯之女

　　Ann Bernays

　　- 但我不认为他觉得外面那些公众都有可靠的判断力

　　ut I don't think he felt that all those publics out there had reliable judgment,

　　- 他们可能轻易投票给错误的人或错的事物

　　and that they very easily might vote for the wrong man or want the wrong thing;

　　- 因此他们必须接受来自上层的指导

　　o that they had to be guided from above.

　　- 从某种意义上，这是开明的专制主义

　　It's enlightened despotism in a sense.

　　You appeal to their desires and unrecognized longings, that sort of thing.

　　That you can tap into their deepest desires or their deepest fears and use that to your own purposes.

　　- 并利用这些达到你自己的目的

　　and use that to your own purposes.

　　20年代开始出现了关于如何操纵大众民主的新理念，其核心是消费的自我，这种理念不仅促使经济运转，还制造快乐和驯服，因此便能造就一个稳定的社会。

　　And then in 1928 a President came to power, who agreed with Bernays.President Hoover was the first politician to articulate the idea that consumerism would become the central motor of American life.After his election he told a group of advertisers and public relations men:"You Have taken over the job of creating desire" and have transformed people into constantly moving happiness machines.Machines which have become the key to economic progress."

　　What was beginning to emerge in the 1920s was a new idea of how to run mass democracy.At it's heart was the consuming self which not only made the economy work but was also happy and docile and so created a stable society.

　　- 伯奈斯和李普曼管理大众的观念

　　oth Bernays and Lippmann's concept of managing the masses

　　- 是将民主的思想拿来，并将它变成缓和剂

　　takes the idea of democracy and turns it into a palliative,

　　斯图尔特 · 伊万 公共关系史学家

　　tuart · Ewen

　　- 变成某种让大众感觉良好的药物

　　It turns it into giving people some kind of feel good medication

　　- 以应对当前的疼痛和渴望

　　that will respond to an immediate pain or immediate yearning

　　- 但却丝毫不会改变客观环境

　　ut will not alter the objective circumstances one iota.

　　- 民主的核心思想是改变权力的关系

　　The idea of democracy at it's heart was about changing the relations of power

　　- 这一思想已统治世界很久

　　that had governed the world for so long;

　　- 而伯奈斯的民主理念是维持权力关系

　　and Bernays' concept of democracy was one of maintaining the relations of power,

　　- 即使这意味着需要刺激公众的心理生活

　　even if it meant that one needed to stimulate the psychological lives of the public.

　　- 而在他的观点里，其实这是必须的

　　And in fact in his mind that is what was necessary.

　　- 如果你能不断刺激非理性的自我

　　That if you can keep stimulating the irrational self

　　- 那么领导阶级就可以继续做他们想做的事

　　then leadership can go on doing what it wants to do.

　　伯奈斯现在成为了商业精英阶层的核心人物之一，他们主导着20年代美国的社会和政治，他也变得非常富有，住在纽约最昂贵的酒店之一的套房里，他经常在那举办宴会

　　ernays now became one of the central figures in a business elite that dominated American society and politics in the 1920s.He also became extremely rich and lived in a suite of rooms in one of New York's most expensive hotels where he gave frequent parties.

　　- 我的天，他在荷兰雪利酒店的转角套房里安了家

　　Oh my goodness, he had a home in the corner suite of the Sherry Netherland hotel

　　- 那是个极好的套房，所有的窗户

　　and here's this wonderful suite with all these windows

　　- 都可以眺望中央公园，购物中心和广场

　　looking out on central park and across at the plaza, and on the square,

　　- 他会用这个地方举办晚会

　　and he would use this place to hold a soiree.

　　- 市长会来，媒体领袖们会来

　　The mayor would come, all the media leaders would come,

　　- 政治领袖、商业领袖，艺术圈的人都会来

　　the political leaders, the business leaders, the people in the arts;

　　- 这是一个名人堂

　　that mean it was who's who.

　　- 人们想要认识埃迪•伯奈斯，因为他已经成了名人

　　eople wanted to know Eddie Bernays because he himself became a sort of a famous man,

　　- 鲜少能让愿望成真的魔法师

　　a sort of magician that could make things happen.

　　- 他认识每个人，他认识市长，认识参议员

　　He knows everybody he knows the mayor, and he knows the senator,

　　- 他给政客们打电话，好像他真的很兴奋似的

　　and he calls politicians on the telephone as if he did get literally a high

　　- 或者随时都能为所欲为

　　or bang out of doing what he did,

　　- 这很好，但对周围的人来说有点难

　　and that's fine, but it can be a little hard on the people around you.

　　- 特别是你让其他人觉得愚蠢的时候

　　Especially when you make other people feel stupid.

　　- 为他工作的人是愚蠢的，孩子们也很愚蠢

　　The people who worked for him were stupid, the children were stupid,

　　- 如果人们做事的方式是他原本不会做的，他们就是愚蠢的

　　and if people did things in a way that he wouldn't have done them, they were stupid.

　　- 他一再重复地说“别那么蠢”

　　It was a word that he used over and over: "don't be stupid".

　　- 那么大众呢？

　　And the masses？

　　- 他们是愚蠢的

　　They were stupid.

　　但伯奈斯的权力将被戏剧性地颠覆，通过一种他无法掌控的人类的理性。1929年十月底，伯奈斯组织了一个巨大的全国性活动，来庆祝电灯泡发明50周年。胡佛总统、商业巨头和银行家如约翰•D•洛克菲勒都被伯奈斯召集而来，庆贺美国商业的力量。

　　正当他们聚会的时候，坏消息来了，纽约证交所的股票开始灾难性下跌，整个20年代，投机者借贷了几十亿美元，银行推销了一种理念，说股市崩盘已成为过去式。但他们错了，这将是史上最大的股市崩盘。投资者陷入恐慌，开始盲目无情地抛售。银行家或政界人士的任何保证都无法阻止。

　　1929年10月29日，市场崩溃了，这使美国经济遭受了灾难性的重创，面对衰退和失业，上百万美国工人停止购买非必需的商品，伯奈斯费力制造出的消费繁荣消失了，他和他的公关事业被打入了冷宫，伯奈斯短暂的掌权时刻看上去似乎结束了。

　　华尔街崩盘的后果在欧洲同样是灾难性的，它加剧了新兴民主国家日益严重的经济和政治危机。在德国和奥地利的街头，不同政党的武装派系，之间发生了激烈的暴力冲突。这样的背景下，患有下颚癌的弗洛伊德再次退到阿尔卑斯山。他写了一本名为《文明及其不满》的书，此书有力地攻击了“文明是人类进步的表现”这一观点。

　　弗洛伊德反驳道，文明的建立是为了控制人类内在危险的兽性本能，弗洛伊德的论证中意示着，个体自由的理想作为民主核心是不可能实现的，人类永远不能真正地表达自己，因为那样太危险，他们必须一直受到控制，因此也会一直不满。

　　ut Bernays' power was about to be destroyed dramatically and by a type of human rationality that he could do nothing to control.At the end of October 1929 Bernays organized a huge national event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the invention of the light bulb.President Hoover, the leaders of major corporations and bankers like John D Rockefeller were all summoned by Bernays to celebrate the power of American business.

　　ut even as they gathered news came through that shares on the New York stock exchange were beginning to fall catastrophically.Throughout the 1920s speculators had borrowed billions of dollars.The banks had promoted the idea that this was a new era where market crashes were a thing of the past.But they were wrong. What was about to happend was the biggest stock market crash in history.Investors had panicked and begun to sell in a blind relentless fury that no reassurance by bankers or politicians could halt.

　　And on the 29th of October 1929, the market collapsed.The effect of the crash on the American economy was disastrous.Faced with recession and unemployment,millions of American workers stopped buying goods they didn't need.The consumer boom that Bernays had done so much to engineer, disappeared.And he and the profession of public relations fell from favor.Bernays' brief moment of power seemed to be over.

　　The effect of the Wall Street crash on Europe was also catastrophic.It intensified the growing economic and political crisis in the new democracies.In both Germany and Austria, there were violent street battles between the armed wings of different political parties.Against this backdrop Freud who was suffering from cancer of the jaw retreated yet again to the alps.He wrote a book called "Civilization and it's Discontents".

　　It was a powerful attack on the idea that civilization was an expression of human progress.Instead Freud argued, civilization had been constructed to control the dangerous animal forces inside human beings.What was implicit in Freud's argument was that the ideal of individual freedom which was at the heart of democracy was impossible.Human beings could never be allowed to truly express themselves because it was too dangerous.They must always be controlled and thus always be discontent.

　　- 人们不想被文明化

　　Man doesn't want to be civilized

　　恩斯特·费登 维也纳精神分析师

　　Dr. Ernst Federn

　　- 而文明带来的不满却又是生存所必需的

　　and civilization brings discontent but is necessarily to survival

　　- 所以他必须不满，因为这是约束自我的唯一方法

　　o he must be discontent because this would be the only way to keep you within your limits.

　　- 弗洛伊德对人人平等怎么看？

　　What did Freud think about the idea of the equality of man？

　　- 他不信这套东西

　　He didn't believe in it.

　　-“我们有32个党”，希特勒说

　　We had 32 parties and Hitler said: "before those parties don't vanish there is no Germany".

　　-“那些党派若不消失，德国就不会存在”

　　quot;before those parties don't vanish there is no Germany",

　　- 这是真的，你们不能同时有32个党派

　　That's true. you can't have 32 parties

　　- 所以他们说这个人会结束这场闹剧

　　o they said this one person will put an end to this comedy.

　　弗洛伊德并不是唯一的悲观主义者，20世纪20年代，在对民主的日渐失望中，阿道夫•希特勒这样的政客出现了。纳粹确信民主是危险的，因为它释放了自私的个人主义，但同时又没法控制它，希特勒的党派 “国家社会主义党”在竞选中宣传，承诺他们会抛弃民主，因为它导致了混乱和失业，民主党派们企图在人间许诺一个天堂（38个党，超过6百万失业者）。1933年3月，国家社会主义党在德国被选举为执政党，他们开始创造一个以不同方式控制人类的社会。

　　他们的第一个行动就是控制商业，产品未来的生产计划由国家制定，由于美国的崩溃，自由市场被证明太不稳固，工人的闲暇时间也由国家安排。通过新组织“乐源力”来掌管此事务，座右铭之一是“服务他人，而非自我”。

　　但纳粹并不认为这是回到旧时的独裁统治，而认为这是替代民主的新选择，群众的情感和欲求仍然是中心，但它们将以某种方式被引导，以便和国家凝聚在一起。宣传部长约瑟夫•戈培尔是这方面的首席倡导者，权力建立在枪杆子上可能是件好事，要是赢得民心那就更好了，保持住他们的欢心！

　　戈培尔组织了大规模的集会，按他所说其功能就是将国民的心灵锻造成思考、感受和欲求的统一体，他告诉一位美国记者，他的灵感来源之一正是弗洛伊德的外甥爱德华•伯奈斯的著作。在他的著作《群体心理学》中，弗洛伊德早已描绘了人类内在令人恐惧的非理性是如何在这样的集体中浮现的。他称之为“原欲”的深层次力量被献给了领导者，而侵略的本能被释放到外部群体中。弗洛伊德写下这些作为警告，但纳粹却刻意鼓励这些力量，因为他们相信自己可以掌控它们

　　Freud was not alone in his pessimism.Politicians like Adolf Hitler emerged from a growing despair in the 1920s about democracy.The Nazis were convinced that democracy was dangerous because it unleashed a selfish individualism but didn't have the means to control it.Hitler's party - "The National Socialists" stood in elections promising in their propaganda.they would abandon democracy because of the chaos and unemployment it led to."The democratic parties are promising a heaven on earth!""38 parties - over 6 million unemployed"In March 1933, the National Socialists were elected to power in Germany and they set out to create a society that would control human beings in a different way.

　　One of their first acts was to take control of business.The planning of production would in the future be done by the state.The free market was too unstable as the crash in America had proven.

　　Workers leisure time was also planned by the state through a new organization called "strength through joy".One of it's mottos was: "Service, not self!".

　　ut the Nazi's did not see this as return to an old form autocratic control.It was a new alternative to democracy,in which the feelings and desires of the masses would still be central,but they would be channeled in such a way as to bind the nation together.The chief exponent of this was Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda.It may be a good thing to hold power based on guns It is far better though if you win the heart of the nation and keep it's affection !

　　Goebbels organized huge rallies whose function he said was to forge the mind of the nation into a unity of thinking, feeling and desire.One of his inspirations, he told an American journalist

　　was the writings of Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays.In his work on crowd psychology, Freud had described how the frightening irrationality inside human beings could emerge in such groups.The deep what he called 'libidinal' forces of desire were given up to the leader while the aggressive instincts are unleashed on those outside the group.Freud wrote this as a warning, but the Nazis were deliberately encouraging these forces because they believed they could master and control them.

　　利奥波德·洛文塔尔 弗洛伊德派精神分析师

　　Dr. Leoppold Lowenthal

　　- 弗洛伊德说大众受制于“原欲”的力量

　　Freud was saying that masses are bound by libidinal forces.

　　- 他们彼此相爱，通过“jack-on-top”来表达自己的想法和感受

　　They love each other and delegate their ideas and feelings through the "jack-on-top".

　　- 那么“原欲”的力量是什么？

　　What are libidinal forces？

　　- 就是爱的力量

　　Well, forces of love.

　　- 不是仇恨吗？

　　ot hate？

　　- 仇恨？那是对其他人的表达，外部的人

　　o,.. hate？... Hate is delegated on the others, outside.

　　- 暴徒…

　　The mob...

　　- 我能从很远处，从树丛中间看出去

　　I could see from afar, looking up between the trees

　　- 当成千上万的人们从希特勒身边经过时

　　how there were hundreds of thousands of people when they passed Hitler

　　- 他们是如何完全神志不清地开始呼喊

　　they were speaking completely delirious and they began to shout,

　　- 那喊声一直在我耳边回响...

　　this cries will never get out of my ears...

　　-“万岁！胜利！”…就此我证实了那些非理性的力量

　　quot;Heil! Sieg Heil!"...and here I got confirmation how those irrational forces,

　　- 这些无法控制的力量，在德国 和德国人中间爆发了，显现了

　　uncontrollable forces in Germany, in the Germans, had erupted, were brought out

　　- 而且已经失控，就在这个党派队列行进的过程中

　　were running wild where the party was marching, marching on."

　　（元首的命令我们要服从！）

　　Fuehrer (Leader's) comand we will follow!

　　群体和他们的行为在美国民主也受到了暴民力量的威胁。愤怒的人们将不满发泄到公司身上，暴力事件不断增加，后者被认为是导致了此次灾难的元凶。1932年一位新总统当选，他同样准备使用政府的权力来控制自由市场，但他的目标并不是要摧毁民主，而是为了强化它，为了做到这一点，他打算发展一种与大众打交道的新方式。

　　罗斯福总统就职演讲——我准备履行宪法赋予我的职责，在遭受重创的国家社会中推行需要采取的措施，但是，在国家危机仍处严峻的情况下，我不会逃避我将面临的明确责任，我将要求国会拿出最后一项工具来应对危机：广泛行政权。

　　这就是后世所称“新政”的起始，罗斯福在华盛顿召集了一批年轻专家和规划者，告诉他们其工作是为了国家的利益 规划和管理巨大的新工业项目。罗斯福确信，股市的崩溃已表明，“自由放任”式资本主义不能再运转现代工业经济了，这工作该归于政府。

　　大企业害怕了，但“新政”却博得了纳粹的赞赏，特别是约瑟夫•戈培尔。

　　Crowds and their behavior And in America too democracy was under threat from the force of the angry mob.The effect of the stock market crash had been disastrous.There was growing violence as an angry population took out their frustration on the corporations who were seen to have caused this disaster.Then in 1932 a new President was elected who was also going to use the power of the state to control the free market.But his aim, was not to destroy democracy, but to strengthen it.

　　And to do this he was going to develop a new way of dealing with the masses——"I am prepared under my constitutional duty to recommend the measures that a stricken nation in the midst of stricken world, may require.But, in the event that the national emergency is still criticalI shall not evade the clear course of duty that will then confront me.I shall ask the congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis：broad executive power."

　　It was the start of what would become known as "The New Deal".Roosevelt assembled a group of young technocrats and planners in Washington.He told them that their job was to plan and run giant new industrial projects for the good of the nation.Roosevelt was convinced the stock market crash had shown that "laissez faire"-capitalism could no longer run modern industrial economies.This has become the job of government.

　　ig business was horrified but The New Deal had attracted the admiration of the Nazis,especially Joseph Goebbels.

　　约瑟夫·戈培尔

　　Joseph Goebbels

　　-我对美国的社会的发展非常感兴趣

　　-"I am very interested in social developments in America.

　　我相信罗斯福总统选择了正确的道路

　　-I believe that President Roosevelt has chosen the right path.

　　-我们正在处理有史以来最严重的社会问题

-We are dealing with the gre