Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
The zizekian thought and the reflections around the formation of a love couple mith
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Brave New World, Formation of a love couple myth, IdeologyAbstract
This work aims a (new)reading of novel Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, in ordem to discuss the “formation of a love couple myth” Žižekian concept. This myth is proposed by Slovene philosopher Slavoj Žižek, one of the important names of Lacanianism, which applies Jacques Lacan’s ideas on Dialectic Materialism, in order to discuss about politics, cinema and other themes. Therefore, it is qualitative, biographical work, based on Slavoj Žižek›s theories and Lacanian materialism. Žižek presents the love couple formation myth as a ramification of ideology’s Family myth, which works as a powerful mechanism of ideological dissemination, very popular in movies and specially in Hollywood. Starting from Žižek’s ideas, it was found that Brave New World denies creating a love couple, because it first creates such possibility only to frustrate this idea.
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