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• How did those incestuous acts and their interpretation function in relationship to other ideas about the family, gender, sexuality, and the social order?
• That group includes affines, based upon the theological idea that as husband and wife were one, marriage to a sister-in-law was as incestuous as marriage to a sister.
• Freud never discussed the fact that it is Jocasta's attempt to murder her son that leads to his incestuous union with her. All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion by Lisa Appignanesi – review
• Not in a legal sense clearly, but it is difficult not to regard this incestuous relationship between party and state as somehow improper.
• Macedonians, [352] 278; apparent discrepance of the two Epistles explained, [353] 288; the second, gentler, [354] 295; loved by Paul more than other churches, [355] 296; estranged from the incestuous person, NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
• The idea seems to be to live out a neverending fairytale celebrity existence on camera, protected from real reality by an incestuously close relationship with the E! network. Philippa Warr: Why Reality Television Isn't Real
• He first appears after the death of Drusilla, his incestuously beloved sister.
• Othello seems to anticipate Freud's idea that a man marries in order to recover the lost mother who sent him out into the world some time ago; a forbidden, incestuous desire for the mother's body is transferred allowably onto another, younger woman. Shakespeare
• She's in that top tier of stars among whom the allegedly choicest scripts circulate incestuously until one of them jumps ship or another climbs aboard. Diaz, Roberts, Aniston: it's all the same when it comes to films like Bad Teacher
• She represented a very ingrown, incestuous culture in that institution that's not open to different ways of thinking. NPR Has One Less Liberal