Inflexões de eros no universo fictício de Admirável Mundo Novo: a sexualidade como fenômeno distópico

Abstract

Through the conditioning of eros, dystopian structures emerge in the fictional narrative Brave New World (2014), by Aldous Huxley, in order to highlight the social control of the State. It is understood that dystopian literary universes have sexuality as one of the foundations for the social configurations in their domains. Faced with such perspectives, we seek to understand the literary explanations of the psychosocial phenomenon eros, as a constitutive element of the studied diegesis. In this way, an outline of the facets of eros was constructed, to better understand it, by Plato's mythological and philosophical dialogues (2017); with a demarcation of the psychosocial approaches by Freud (2011; 2019) and Marcuse (1968). Then, we identify the forms eros’ accommodation present in the society of the studied novel, as well as how they are characterized as the control mechanisms of subjectivities. Finally, we explain some links between the libidinal impulse and the dystopian configuration of the literary work. Such processes required contextual readings of the novel, with regard to the inflections of eros in this brave fictional universe – which still translates much of contemporary realities.