What Is Sigmund Freud Controlling The American Dream

Freud thought that the dream was the royal road to the unconscious. Freud’s ideas were used by people in power to control the masses. Freud thought that inside us are dangerous, irrational desires and fears. The unleashing of these instincts lead to the barbarism of Nazi Germany. We need ways to control the hidden enemy in the human mind.

The film shows how the ideas of Sigmund and Anna Freud applied by Edward Bernays, and others, were used by the government, big business and the C.I.A. to try to manage and control the minds of the American people. They felt that the only way to make Democracy work is to suppress the barbarism lurking just under the surface of ordinary life.
U.S. Army faced the mental breakdowns of its troopsin World

War II; 49% of troops evacuated from combat suffered from mental problems. The army turned to psychoanalysis. They filmed the troops for a record. (Martin Bergmann, and other psychiatrists from Eastern Europe, helped American psychiatrists with the soldiers. They saw the “inner soul of America.”) The breakdowns were not due to the stress of combat; but combat triggered old childhood memories: violent memories that had been repressed because they were too horrible to remember. They thought Freud is right; we are driven by primitive irrational forces. WWII was shattering; it showed the enormous role of the irrational in the lives of most people. They thought that the ratio between the rational and irrational is heavily in favor of the irrational in Americans. They saw much greater unhappiness and suffering than you would think on the surface. “It’s a sadder country than you would gather from the advertisements.”