Word: incest
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...play, which is based on the tragedy "Oedipus the King" by Sophocles gains modernity from the Freudian influence which is dominant in its construction. In the Greek play, Oedipus was sent away from home because it was predicted that he would kill his father and commit incest. Returning unexpectedly, he kills his father in ignorance of his identify, and marries his mother to become king. The play concerns the discovery of his position, and the retribution which overtakes him and his bride, Iocasta...
...repute, found his "American Mercury" suppressed because of an article which offended the tender nostrils of the Hub. A little later, Mr. Eugene O'Neill, the American dramatic laureate, found his "Strange Interlude" banned to the purlieus of Quincy because the Back Bay would have no dealings with incest. And within the memory of the current college generation of the Morals Squad of the peerless. Boston Constabulary found it necessary to confincate certain literary works from lending libraries on the ground of offensive lecherousness...
...Such works, and those of Faulkner and T. S. Stribling, while they may not be libel, betray a morbid mental state on the part of the authors: The South has no monopoly of insanity, race conflict, incest...
...story turns back several years. Nicole, daughter of a millionaire Chicago widower, is brought by her father to a Swiss clinic for mental cases. The doctor discovers that her insanity is the result of incest with her father. Dick, an ambitious specialist in psychiatry, is a friend of the doctor's, takes an interest in Nicole's case. In psychoanalyst patter, she "makes a transference" to Dick-i. e., falls in love with him. When her doctor advises Dick that he has done the patient all the good he can and should "break the transference" by going away...
...women so fiercely laid bare in these pages are by no means the ordinary. A staid couple has committed a murder, and lived on to forget it, remaining quite a pleasant pair. One girl has lived in incest, and ends with suicide. A man loses wife and place because of gross and public cowardice. It is a tribute to the skill of the author that all these themes, so bloody and thundery when related in skeleton, impress the reader of the book as the most natural and commonplace. This fact is perhaps the most convincing proof that Maugham has succeeded...