Category:Incest Taboo

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The advent of the incest taboo begins the trade in daughters, otherwise known as marriage, by which families receive in exchange son-in-laws. The taboo places both father and son under the rule of law, places sons under the rule of their fathers, and makes fathers accountable to their families. As such it is the advent of marriage, the advent of law, the advent of politics, the advent of society, the advent of property, and the advent of economics. And the transgression of the incest taboo is the advent of crime. Biological man leaves the cave behind and civilised man comes into existence with language and the incest taboo, the latter arguably reinforced by religion.

The transgression of the incest taboo is not a crime among others. It is the crime of all crimes and as such threatens to undo the very order we call civilization. This is dramatised in various ways. In the case of the incest committed by Adam Desjardins a demon is understood to have been brought into, and let loose upon, the world, threatening the return of primordial, bestial chaos.

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