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“The engineering of consent”, second episode of the BBC series “The century of the self”, is focused on the topic of mass society’s control seen from the point of view of Anna Freud. The dilemma is still between “control and trust”. The main argument offered is that people are driven by inner irrational forces. Therefore, for an healthy democracy, those instincts have to be controlled and eventually repressed. Anna Freud thought that the way to govern mass society was to teach people how to repress