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The Century of the Self Poster

The Engineering of Consent S01 E02

58 min 8.4 (Series)

The programme explores how those in power in post-war America used Freud's ideas about the unconscious mind to try and control the masses.

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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