![]() ![]() Ultimately, the novel both reflects on and intervenes in a critical biopolitical shift in regulating the brain. Simultaneously, it demonstrates the failures of the politics of a reactionary, fear-based neuroscience. In 1973, a bookseller in Orem, Utah was arrested for. A Clockwork Orange has faced multiple book banning attempts due to the sexual violence it depicts. As such, a neuroscientific reading of A Clockwork Orange articulates how counterculture perverts psychopharmacology, driving it away from the normalizing discourses of psychiatric power (as it is used to correct deviant mental states). Burgess also invents a Russian-inspired slang of the future called ‘Nadsat’, designed to make Alex’s language even more threatening as the novel was written at the height of the Cold War. I argue that the novel engages the dynamics among psychopharmacology, neuroscience, and psychiatry, and investigates how these specialties function within Western culture to mediate between dominant and subordinate divisions. This essay explains the function and representation of drugs in the novel within the context of neuroscience's development during the 1960s. The group returns to their favourite bar. Alexander’s manuscript, titled A Clockwork Orange. ![]() Furthermore, the connection between the novel and the development of neuroscience-including the use of drugs that affect the brain-has yet to be considered. During the attack, Alex and his gang destroy Mr. The novel is known for its invented language. Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange is rarely considered in terms of psychopharmacology. It is a dystopian novel about a roving gang of teenagers who instill fear in and inflict violence on the populace. ![]()
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