thrown up on a rock, the skeleton of a ship choked in its own sails." Anaïs Nin describes the process as akin to being "jected from a paradise of soundlessness. House of Incest is largely an attempt by the narrator to cope with the shock of the trauma of birth. He had experience with this topic, as Otto Rank's most famous book is The Trauma of Birth. Incest: From a Journal of Love"-The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1932–1934) reveals that the two were also having an affair. Rank was an early disciple of Freud, serving as the secretary and youngest member of his Vienna group, but had long since dissented from Freudian orthodoxy and developed his own theoretical school. Nin was under the analysis of Otto Rank during the period of writing House of Incest. Toward the end of the book, the character called "the modern Christ" puts Nin's use of the word into context: “If only we could all escape from this house of incest, where we only love ourselves in the other."
But eventually it becomes a sterile nightmare. At first, such a self-love can seem ideal because it is without fear and without risk. One is then only loving oneself, shunning all differences. In other words, in this book the word "incest" describes a selfish love where one can appreciate in another only that which is similar to oneself. Nin's usage of the word incest in this case is metaphorical, not literal. Rather, House of Incest is a surrealistic look within the narrator's subconscious mind as she attempts to escape from a dream in which she is trapped, or in Nin's words, as she attempts to escape from "the woman's season in hell." But unlike her diaries and erotica, House of Incest does not detail the author's relationships with famous lovers like Henry Miller, nor does it contain graphic depiction of sex. Originally published in 1936, it is Anaïs Nin's first work of fiction. Urn:oclc:787432669 Republisher_date 20120928181323 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120927081742 Scanner of Incest is a slim volume of 72 pages written by Anaïs Nin.
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