Sigmund Freud's Brave New World: The Cost Of

In society, human individuality and freedom of self expression contribute excessively to the social stability of human nature. If social stability were to be broken or interrupted, human nature would self-destruct and become confined to a predetermined fate. In the novel Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, the psychological effects of society repress human nature through the use of the drug soma, classical conditioning of the mind; such as electroshock therapy, and genetically modified human DNA. Referring to Sigmund Freud’s theory of psychoanalytic perspective, Freud explores the effects of the unconscious behavior. Freud has traced his theory to sexual and aggressive urges, which both come to focus in the novel, Brave New World. Occurrences such as children

People living in the twenty first century are “trying to determine whether these new realities of life will enhance it and bring life as they know it to a great unprecedented level, or if these new products will contribute and perhaps even cause destruction of society and life” (Gehlhaus, Brave New World: The Cost of Stability). In the article, Brave New World: The Cost of Stability, by Ricky Gehlhaus, the author critics the novel by giving the reader examples of the “dehumanizing of man” which is portrayed through the Utopian society; by the classical conditioning of removing any independence, feeling or love. Gehlhaus gives the reader a first person perspective of Brave New World which shows the structured system of the psychological effects which humans are put through; the use of classical conditioning. Gehlhaus is connecting and contrasting society today with the imaginary world in the novel to show the similarities of now and to also convey the tremendous extremities in which the Utopian people are put through in order to be stripped of all human nature. Gehlhaus