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Advertising & Sex
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Advertising & Sex
Discusses psychological motivation in advertising. Theories of supplanting one behavior with another.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages) |
5 sources |
2001
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"At the end of his gossipy memoir on advertising, Bernays describes a meeting in which a psychiatrist looks at a proposed ad for cigarettes and proclaims the cigarette to be a phallic symbol. Use one man, one woman, one cigarette, and you have life. Bernays's comment?"The use of psychoanalysis as the basis of advertising is common today, but I believe this may have been the first instance of its application to advertising" (Bernays 141). Bernays? assertion bears examination, since, if it is true, then it does indeed deserve to be considered the first use of psychoanalysis in advertising. However, the construct image to which Bernays? referred was actually the construct of "sex" instead of ?psychoanalysis.? The two terms are by no means synonymous..."
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"Advertising & Sex" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Essay-Advertising-Sex/11016>
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