Cultural industry, entertainment and culture of narcisism: the question of therapeutic social control

Abstract

The remarkable presence of the entertainment in the contemporary media and its relations with the forms taken by the subjectivity in the contemporary context and with the existence of power’s mechanisms which captures individuals behaviors. Thoughts from authors such as Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse and Lasch questioning about the characteristics of capitalist society, mostly north-american society. The media takes part of instituitions that tutor the behaviors and practice what has known as therapeutic social control.