![]() 905,799,947 visitors served. |
|
![]() Dictionary/ thesaurus | ![]() Medical dictionary | ![]() Legal dictionary | ![]() Financial dictionary | ![]() Acronyms | ![]() Idioms | ![]() Encyclopedia | ![]() Wikipedia encyclopedia | ? |
incest |
Also found in: Legal, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Hutchinson | 0.04 sec. |
|
incest /in·cest/ (in´sest?) sexual activity between persons so closely related that marriage between them is legally or culturally prohibited.
|
|
? Mentioned in | ? References in periodicals archive | |
|---|---|---|
One must then also exclude from the kingdom of God today all who are immoral (or prostitutes or engaged in incestual relationships), all idolaters, adulterers, thieves, greedy persons, drunkards, revilers, and robbers. La Cienaga chronicles the exploits of a couple of families on vacation and manages to evoke a mood -- in this case a kind of humid claustrophobia mixed with a strong undertone of incestual sexual tension -- better than any film I saw. In1931, psychoanalyst Ernest Jones suggested that the repeated intrusion of these fearful dreams into sleep is related to an "anxiety neurosis" and massively repressed incestual wishes. |
| Free Tools: |
For surfers:
Browser extension |
Word of the Day |
Help
For webmasters: Free content NEW! | Linking | Lookup box | Double-click lookup | Partner with us |
|
|---|