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“Phobia is phobia; it springs, as Freud and Jung and H.S.Sullivan showed, from the depths of the self unknown to the self” (Dick, 1964).
This is how Phillip K. Dick describes the Germans view of the Jewish people. A phobia that led to a war. Dick wrote this after seeing some comments about a review of his novel The Man in the High Castle. People were commenting on his use of Naziism throughout the novel.
After reading this article, I get the feeling that Dick used Naziism just because everything it alludes to should not still be deemed relevant in this day in age, (or even in the days of original publication). By having an alternate world in which the allies were defeated by the Nazi’s, Dick was able to put stereotypes into play, with what I now see as a tongue-in-cheek attitude. He ends with saying that ‘let’s live in the present and for the future, not dwelling neurotically on the outrages of the past’ (Dick, 1964).
This is how Phillip K. Dick describes the Germans view of the Jewish people. A phobia that led to a war. Dick wrote this after seeing some comments about a review of his novel The Man in the High Castle. People were commenting on his use of Naziism throughout the novel.
After reading this article, I get the feeling that Dick used Naziism just because everything it alludes to should not still be deemed relevant in this day in age, (or even in the days of original publication). By having an alternate world in which the allies were defeated by the Nazi’s, Dick was able to put stereotypes into play, with what I now see as a tongue-in-cheek attitude. He ends with saying that ‘let’s live in the present and for the future, not dwelling neurotically on the outrages of the past’ (Dick, 1964).
References
Dick, P.K. (2001;1962). The Man in the High Castle. London: Penguin
Dick, P.K. (1995). Nazism and the High Castly. In Sutin L. (Ed), The Shifting Realities of Phillip K. Dick (pp.112-117). New York: Vintage
References
Dick, P.K. (2001;1962). The Man in the High Castle. London: Penguin
Dick, P.K. (1995). Nazism and the High Castly. In Sutin L. (Ed), The Shifting Realities of Phillip K. Dick (pp.112-117). New York: Vintage.
An interesting response, but one that I think could be developed further - perhaps by contextualising your argument in more detail using Dick's tMitHC. You begin to do this with your discussion of the 'alternate world' found in the novel but can you explain further how this relates to your earlier ideas as it's a bit vague.?
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