"Politicians used Freudian ideas to first convince Americans they needed capitalism" https://qz.com/976472/politicians-used-freudian-ideas-to-first-convince-ame

"Politicians used Freudian ideas to first convince Americans they needed capitalism" https://qz.com/976472/politicians-used-freudian-ideas-to-first-convince-americans-they-needed-capitalism/ https://qz.com/976472/politicians-used-freudian-ideas-to-fir... > ... Freud’s nephew, Edward Bernays, was a propagandist who used his uncle’s theories to sell capitalism to the American public. > ... Psychoanalyst and psychologist Michael Donner, president of the San Francisco Center for psychoanalysis, says he recommends the documentary to everyone. “People ask, ‘How did Trump get elected in this country?’” he says. “Well here: Watch this [documentary].” > ... “Freud understood that people are irrational,” says Donner. “We build a layer of rationality on top of it. But we’re driven by needs, wants, and desires that aren’t necessarily rational.”