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BRAVE NEW WORLD FREUDIAN CONNECTIONS AND MIKE WALLACE INTERVIEW

SIGMUND FREUD (1856 -1939) ON MAN’S PSYCHE: THE RISE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS

FREUD’S INFLUENCE ON THE WESTERN WORLD IN THE 20 TH CENTURY • HE OFTEN QUOTED HIS WORK AS A PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION OFC HRIST’S WORDS IN JOHN 8: 32: “ AND YOU SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE. ” • HE REVOLUTIONIZED MODERN THINKING ABOUT DREAMS AND OUTLINED THE NOW WIDELY ACCEPTED NOTION THAT DREAMING RESULTS FROM UNGUARDED THINKING OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS PART OF THE BRAINH. E REASONED THAT, THOUGH ITS COMMUNICATIVE SKILL WAS LOW, THIS “DREAMING BRAIN” OFFERED INSIGHTS —AND ESCAPED “CONSCIOUS REPRESSION” BY THE CONSCIOUS BRAIN—THAT FURTHER REVEALED TRUTH AND COULD BE USED IN THE TREATMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS. • FREUD WAS ABLE TO PERSUADE HIS OPPONENTS AND ADMIRERS ALIKE THAT SEXUAL REPRESSION WAS RAMPANT, UNHEALTHY, AND THE INDIRECT CAUSE OF MUCH CRIME, ILLNESS AND WOE. • HE ADDED NUMEROUS WORDS TO OUR LANGUAGE, WHICH REMAIN IN POPULAR USE TODAY: “THE UNCONSCIOUS, ” “GUILT COMPLEX, ” “THE EGO, ” “SUBLIMATION, ” “THE FREUDIAN SLIP, ” AND “DEATH INSTINCT”— LATER TO BECOME “DEATH WISH”—TO NAME BUT A FEW.

WHY WOULD HUXLEY HAVE THIS SOCIETY CONFLATE HENRY FORD AND SIGMUND FREUD? • “OUR FORD–OR OUR FREUD, AS, FOR SOME INSCRUTABLE REASON, HE CHOSE TO CALL HIMSELF WHENEVER HE SPOKE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MATTERS– OUR FREUD HAD BEEN THE FIRST TO REVEAL THE APPALLING DANGERS OF FAMILY LIFET. HE WORLD WAS FULL OF FATHERS–WAS THEREFORE FULL OF MISERY; FULL OF MOTHERS–THEREFORE OF EVERY KIND OF PERVERSION FROM SADISM TO CHASTITY; FULL OF BROTHERS, SISTERS, UNCLES, AUNTS– FULL OF MADNESS AND SUICIDE. ” • SADISM= THE DERIVATION OF SEXUAL GRATIFICATION FROM THE INFLICTION OF PHYSICAL PAIN OR HUMILIATION ON ANOTHER PERSON — COMPAREMASOCHISM , SADOMASOCHISM, DELIGHT IN CRUELTY, EXCESSIVE CRUELTY • CHASTITY= : THE QUALITY OR STATE OF BEING CHASTE : SUCH AS ABSTENTION FROM UNLAWFUL SEXUAL INTERCOURSE, ABSTENTION FROM ALL SEXUAL INTERCOURSE, RESTRAINT AND SIMPLICITY IN DESIGN OR EXPRESSION

WRITE DOWN THESE QUESTIONS IN YOUR NOTES ALDOUS HUXLEY’S INTERVIEW WITH MIKE WALLACE • WHAT ARE THE QUALITIES OF THE MODERN WORLD THATH UXLEY SEES AS CONTROLS/ENEMIES OF FREEDOM? • WHAT ARE HUXLEY’S PREDICTIONS OF THE FUTURE THAT HAVE COME TRUE? • WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES IN UNDERSTANDING BETWEENH UXLEY AND WALLACE? • WHAT ELEMENTS OF TODAY’S SOCIETY WOULD HAVESURPRISED HUXLEY?