Word: incest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first choice of object in mankind," Freud believed, "is regularly an incestuous one." Sir James Frazer, the British anthropologist, also explained the almost universal ban on incest as a necessary safeguard against man's urge to mate with the most available partner: "The law only forbids men to do what their instincts incline them to do." For years, most scientists discounted a contrary suggestion by Finnish Anthropologist Edward Westermarck that close childhood association discourages erotic feeling...
...novel-in-the-form-of-a-memoir-or vice versa-had sex with Erika too. He was also attracted to Eric, though they never quite made it to bed. In addition, there is Marietta Donegal, an aging mystical novelist who was once lover to both men. The incest angle is best read as a suborbital send-up of Ada, Vladimir Nabokov's incestuous riddle of time and memory. For starters there is Van Damm and Nabokov's Van Veen...
...Louis to make a refreshing call to a national reconciliation -and found himself refreshed in turn by a jubilant reception that acted as a visible tonic. Once home in California, he reflected: "In Washington, we tend to live in a very isolated world. There is a sort of intellectual incest which really reduces the level of the dialogue. You have to go to the country now and then to get a real feeling of what people are thinking...
Firewater Legend. The authors decant jeroboams of evidence to support their contention that what society expects of the drinker efficiently polices the uninhibiting effect of the drink. The Lepchas, a Mongolian tribe found in the Sikkim Himalayas, enforce incest taboos of astonishing complexity: a man may not couple with his wife's mother or elder sisters, the wife of his wife's older brother, the wives of his sons and younger brothers, and so on. On the annual rice-festival night, when everyone gets bleary on the native brew chi, sexual abandon is not only permitted but practiced...
...opposed to it on philosophical grounds because the kind of world we live in-its pluralism, diversity, and closeness-demands an end to ethnic and cultural incest, an excuse for the insecure who don't feel they can make it in a multi-society...