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Essay / Aldous Huxley's Warning to America - 2295
A dystopia - "an imaginary place or state in which living conditions are extremely poor, such as from deprivation, oppression, or terror” (Dystopia). Aldous Huxley demonstrates this in his book Brave New World. In Brave New World, Huxley creates a perfectly stable society using clones. This society has achieved this stability through brain administration and conditioning. Huxley, an extreme humanist, feared this future society because of the work of other extremists whose theories could not be proven. (Chunk) Sigmund Freud, known as the father of psychoanalysis, was an influential physiologist, physician, and thinker of the early 20th century. (Thornton), he had many strange ideas about the human brain that many psychologists had difficulty getting accepted, but these theories made him an acclaimed psychologist. His ideas could not be scientifically proven in any way, but that did not matter to the public. They exalted Freud and everything he stood for. Huxley saw how Freud's discoveries left everyone apprehensive, and it intimidated him. Huxley saw how easily people could be manipulated by a person who had no tangible scientific evidence to support his philosophy. The gullibility of Huxley's society not only frightened him, it petrified him. In Brave New World, Huxley uses countless Freudian concepts to show America the consequences of such great deception. In the book, Huxley used Ford as a divine figure, they said "our Ford" instead of saying "our Lord", but sometimes Huxley insightfully changed Ford's name to Freud, thus saying "our Freud". This minor element often ends up being ignored by the reader because Freud's name never appears explicitly in the middle of the paper ......ave-new-world/>. "Dystopia - Definition of dystopia by the free Online Dictionary, thesaurus and encyclopedia. "Dictionary, encyclopedia and thesaurus - The free dictionary. Internet. March 8, 2011. .Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006. Print “Id, Ego, Superego, and the Unconscious in Psychology 101 at AllPsychOnline.” » Psychology class on AllPsych Online. March 21, 2004. The web. February 22, 2011. “Jean the Savage in Brave New World. » Shmoop: Study guides and resources for teachers. Internet. March 8, 2011. .Thornton, Stephen. "Freud, Sigmund [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]." Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. April 16, 2001. The web. March 8. 2011. .