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incestSexual intercourse between persons thought to be too closely related to marry; the exact relationships that fall under the incest taboo vary widely from society to society. A biological explanation for the incest taboo is based on the necessity to avoid inbreeding. Within groups in which ritual homosexuality is practised, for example in New Guinea, an incest taboo applies also to these relations, suggesting that the taboo is as much social as biological in origin. |
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| One must then also exclude from the kingdom of God today all who are immoral (or prostitutes or engaged in incestual relationships), all idolaters, adulterers, thieves, greedy persons, drunkards, revilers, and robbers. La Cienaga chronicles the exploits of a couple of families on vacation and manages to evoke a mood -- in this case a kind of humid claustrophobia mixed with a strong undertone of incestual sexual tension -- better than any film I saw. In1931, psychoanalyst Ernest Jones suggested that the repeated intrusion of these fearful dreams into sleep is related to an "anxiety neurosis" and massively repressed incestual wishes. |
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