https://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2010/08/29/subliminal-reduction-at-the-washington-post/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 06:04:41 -0400<![CDATA[Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, Subliminal Seduction by Wilson Bryan Key was constantly in print. I think I bought my paperback copy a good decade after it was first released in 1973. I&#8217;ve never really bought the conspiratorial theory; there have been Freudian images in advertising since &#8212; well, probably since about five minutes after the good doctor smoked his first cigar. And it does seem like bored airbrush artists have long been inserting funky imagery into the ice cubes in photographs of scotch tumblers. But&#8230;do these techniques in and of themselves actually manipulate consumers to buy a particular product?]]>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 02:35:37 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Driscoll]]>https://pjmedia.com/ed-driscoll/2010/08/29/subliminal-reduction-at-the-washington-post-n252359