Brave New World 3

'"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 life. The 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."' pg 39

It's interesting that Huxley chooses Freud for this allusion. On the surface, everyone knows Freud to be a groud breaking psychologist, but what only a  educated (child development, perhaps) student would know that Freud, in his brand new analysis of psychopaths, often used as a defense mechanism in his patients.  Repression is most commonly known as "bottling up" ones darkest secrets or most troublesome feelings.This is often done when a negative emotion is linked to the repressed desire which can lead to the elimination of what is right and wrong or explosion due to excess of repressed desires. However, the really unique aspect of repression is that this is done subconsciously. Now, with that information, Mr. Dr. Freud is severely repressed. He has linked only negative things to all members of the family, and thus elminated the family aspect from the world he is creating. I also find it odd that the Huxley takes the time to capitalize "Our". Come to think of it, the only other time I see that is in the Our Father, a world wide prayer spoken to God. It is almost as if the speaker believes that Ford is more than human.