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The Century of the Self Poster

Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering S01 E04

58 min 8.4 (Series)

How both the Labour Party in Britain and the Democrats in America have sought to gain power through use of the focus group, invented by psychoanalysts to fulfil desires of the inner self.

Series Cast

Adam Curtis (as Narrator) Anne Bernays (as Self) Robert Reich (as Self) Edward L. Bernays (as Self (archive footage)) Sigmund Freud (as Self (archive footage)) Wilhelm Reich (as Self (archive footage)) Tony Blair (as Self (archive footage)) Margaret Thatcher (as Self (archive footage)) Bill Clinton (as Self (archive footage)) Ronald Reagan (as Self (archive footage))

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psychoanalysis sigmund freud miniseries

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