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...were concerned, the Kings had dropped from sight until Cynthia, 21, showed up at the police station last October and complained that for ten years her father had been forcing her to have sex with him. She told the officers that she had finally decided to file charges of incest against him at the urging of a friend, Stanley Sinclair, 20, son of a Methodist minister. The following month Sinclair was stabbed to death in Houston. King, who was scheduled to go on trial for incest last week, asked several townspeople who happened to be members of the First Baptist...
...thesis, applying not only Freud, but Hegel, Weber, Neitzshe, Levi-Strauss, and Marx to the Southern burden, his grandiose designs appear pretentious at best, silly at worst. Almost randomly, King inserts short paragraphs alluding to Levi-Strauss's Elementary Structures of Kinship to back up his thesis on incest as repetition. King is not afraid, unfortunately, to make sweeping one-line statements about Freud's memory theories or characterize, without explaining, Cash as the "Weberian ideal type." King incessantly refers to these sociological and psychological giants with college freshman zeal: proud of his discovery that Freud applies to everything, King...
...MOST PREVELENT self-consciousness is King's own. He word-drops and name-drops, carrying on about "the fundamental valorization of difference and hierarchy" or "the exogamous injunction" of incest. If anything is new about King's book, it's his word choice, not his ideas. He hails the Renaissance writers for trying to "demystify" their heritage, then clouds the issues himself with his convoluted vocabulary...
...amazed and appalled by TIME'S biased, closed-minded presentation of research on the effects of incest. TIME reacted with the very hysteria researchers are attempting to understand in their effort to aid victims of incest. It would seem reasonable that the guilt engendered by such hysterical reactions may cause far greater damage to the victim than the actual act of incest...
Definition of incest: a game the whole family can play...