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Bruno Bettelheim:
The question of whether Zelig was a psychotic or merely neurotic was a question that was endlessly discussed among his doctors. Now I myself felt his feelings were really not all that different from the normal, what one would call the well-adjusted, normal person, only carried to an extreme degree, to an extreme extent. I myself felt that one could really think of him as the ultimate conformist
The question of whether Zelig was a psychotic or merely neurotic was a question that was endlessly discussed among his doctors. Now I myself felt his feelings were really not all that different from the normal, what one would call the well-adjusted, normal person, only carried to an extreme degree, to an extreme extent. I myself felt that one could really think of him as the ultimate conformist
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The question whether Zelig was a psychotic
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or merely extremely neurotic
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was a question that was endlessly discussed among us doctors
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Now I myself felt that uh
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His feelings were really not all that different from the normal
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maybe what one would call the well adjusted normal person
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only carried to an extreme degree to an extreme extent
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I myself felt that one could really think of him as the ultimate conformist
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Movie Summary
Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.
