JOURNAL ARTICLE

Taboo Revisited in Dystopia: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.

  • Published In: Partial Answers, 2025, v. 23, n. 1. P. 15 1 of 3

  • Database: Humanities Source Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Arikan, Seda 3 of 3

Abstract

This article reads Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel Brave New World as a portrayal of two societies, one primitive and the other futuristic, founded on taboos. Although the two contradictory worlds survive on opposite taboos, the study argues that the social and psychic mechanisms behind the operation of taboos in the Savage Reservation and in the World State are structurally similar. Drawing on Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Žižek, and Julia Kristeva, the article examines Huxley's narrative of taboos in terms of the dialectic of desire and law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Partial Answers. 2025/01, Vol. 23, Issue 1, p15
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2025
  • ISSN:15653668
  • DOI:10.1353/pan.2025.a949625
  • Accession Number:182950155
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