[Queen of Hearts] tells the story of incest between stepmother and stepson.
The stepson had just finished taking a bath that day, with water drops still hanging on his body, and he ran into the stepmother who was cleaning the room for him head-on.
He was only wearing a bath towel around his waist, she pinched the peel and confetti in his room and a book he had read halfway-"Men" by the Italian female journalist Oriana Fallaci, and asked Is he good-looking? What is he talking about? He replied: A man.
Things happened at this time.
Before that, the stepmother who was an elite lawyer thought she had everything, her husband was smart, her daughter was cute, the villa was spacious, and her career was proud. Ah, it's in the clouds. Unexpectedly, the stepson's green body and eyes with drops of water made her sink.
She likes his tattoos, cassettes and the hair on his arms. She closes her eyes and never misses it. She never forgets it.
So one night, he entered the stepson's room, knelt on the ground with a wolf-like desire, and crave his youthful flesh in a surrender posture —there were three large-scale erotic scenes.
She jerked like a person who couldn't swim, and kept sinking, always sinking, and shouting "Don't save me", wet and twisted.
——This incest (Incest) abnormal love, Wikipedia's interpretation is that it refers to the sexual behavior between family members or relatives, which is the most common cultural taboo in human society.
01 Legend
As early as in ancient times, before words appeared, the first marriage system of mankind was born—consanguineous marriage—referring to the marriage of brothers and sisters.
There is a record in Hesiod's "The Book of Gods": The third generation Zeus married his sister Hera, combined with other sisters and aunts, and gave birth to gods.
Zeus' grandmother Gaia is even more exaggerated. She gave birth to a son through asexual reproduction, married her son, and gave birth to 18 children.
Of course, these myths and legends were fabricated by the Greek people at that time. But art comes from life, and "blood marriage" is indeed very popular in ancient Greece, even lasting to the ancient Roman era.
The third emperor of the ancient Roman Empire, Caligula, maintained a long-term abnormal relationship with his three sisters. One of the younger sisters later married her uncle.
This is reflected in the movie [Amorous History of the Roman Empire] .
Pope Alexander VI of Spain had a relationship with his daughter and wrote in the edict that he was the father of the daughter's son. Later, this daughter went to bed with her own elder brother.
Similarly, Pope John XII had sex with his mother and sister. Cardinal Pierre Townsend simply treats his sisters as lovers, and even caresses their rooms.
Queen Margot of France also has a physical relationship with her elder brother Charles IX, and also maintains a romantic relationship with her younger brother Henry III.
In the movie [Queen Margot] , the role played by Ajani is this woman, who rampaged incest in the luxurious and prosperous French court in the 16th century, and was entangled by scandals, conspiracies and tragedies throughout her life.
But looking back at the entire European history, you will find that the above cases are really not enough, and the most paradoxical should belong to the Habsburg dynasty .
This dynasty that has been the favorite of geneticists to study so far is not only the most prominent and the most extensive in European history, but incest is as natural as raising flowers and grass and carrying water for food.
And because of this, they are all "covering the sky". This genetic phenomenon reached its peak in Carlos II. The huge jaw often made it difficult for him to chew food. He also suffered from intellectual disability, epilepsy and impotence. He was 38 years old. There was no end to that year.
Some sociologists believe that most of these royal incests are for the perpetual continuation of the pure blood, and even for political purposes, to form alliances and consolidate their status.
The Habsburg dynasty dominated Europe on this basis, and on this basis it was extinct in the middle of the 18th century. It is the success or failure of Xiao He to play oneself to death.
During this period, French thinkers began to lean towards relativism in their values, and supported and opposed incest.
A considerable number of people regard this as a "philosophical crime", but the Marquis de Thaad highly praised this kind of family love, thinking that the myth should be imitated and intimacy should occur.
Napoleon himself also liked his sister Pauline Bonaparte very much. His wife also noticed that the relationship between the siblings was "too close." Pauline also expressed a willingness to have a relationship with Napoleon in order to see how people reacted. , Must be quite interesting.
After the 20th century, the most sensational incident of incest was the French painter and photographer Pierre Morinière and his sister.
Of course, this matter is actually inaccurate, you can skip over and not read it, but it doesn't hurt to read it.
It is rumored that Morinière once kissed the feet of a sculpture modeled after her sister, and after her sister died of the Spanish flu, he had sex with her body and then fined it.
Morinière also thinks that his daughter is very beautiful. There are rumors of both being lovers’ messages. Even his daughter admits, “ I know that my father looks at me with a romantic gaze, and it has been six months before I got married. Jealous of the marriage contractor. "
02 Academic
Freud summed up this kind of intimacy complex as the "Oedipus complex", which is taken from the ancient Greek tragedy "The King of Oedipus". He talked about the king of Thebes in Greek mythology. Under the premise of love, he killed his father and married his mother.
Freud therefore believed that in the boy's self, there was a desire to monopolize the love of his mother, but he gradually understood in the future that his father had already possessed this love, so he regarded his father as a competitor.
At the same time, because of fear of being castrated by his father, the boy gradually suppressed his desire for exclusivity, and finally assimilated and sublimated himself with his father.
By the way, Freud had a desire for his sister and had sex with his daughter Anna.
In terms of philosophy, many people in the Stoic school also recognize incest love. For example, the ancient Greek philosopher Zion’s Zeno believed that “ it’s not surprising that a part of a mother rubs against a part of oneself. It's weird to touch my mother. "
This view was seconded by Kryssipos. He said, “It’s no problem that father and daughter, mother and son, brothers and sisters, and siblings do it together, just like many people do it properly. As long as it is proved that this kind of behavior is not against nature, it is acceptable."
Hegel also supported this behavior in "Phenomenology of Mental Phenomenology". He proposed a "community law", which believed that the blood relationship between brothers and sisters can make the two parties stable and balanced. After the union, they will not desire or respect each other Individual independence.
Hegel also established a strong attachment relationship with his sister Christian, and even his wife was jealous.
The utopian socialist thinker Charles Fourier was very supportive of the sexual behavior among collateral blood relatives, and believed that such behavior should be permitted, and then the children were handed over to the nursery to be taken care of by the society.
Hitler is also a typical case. He not only believed that he should protect the national bloodline from the Jews' erosion, but he also showed extraordinary persistence in incest in the book "My Struggle".
Some scholars specifically made a list of sexual relations with Hitler, including his niece, Geri Laubal.
In this way, in the entire philosophical world, the only people who oppose incest are probably Socrates and Plato.
Plato strongly opposed this kind of sex in the "Ideal State", believing that it "will show human animality" and "rarely produce good offspring." His teacher Socrates also believes that "friendship with close relatives is not conducive to the growth of children born from this."
This view coincides with genetics.
A Spanish genetics team used to calculate the inbreeding coefficient of Carlos II of the Habsburg dynasty. It went back 16 generations and obtained data on more than 3000 people. It was concluded that the closer the parents’ blood relationship, the more zygotic types. , The biological cost of the offspring will also rise, resulting in a higher genetic risk.
But Robin I. Bennett, a genetics consultant at the University of Washington, dismissed this conclusion, saying that the probability of birth defects in offspring after marriage with cousins is only 2%-3% higher than that of ordinary people.
The Elephant Association published an article in April this year "If Long Ma and Xue Nuo gave birth to a child", which believed that it was people’s imagination and the impression of most people, which overestimated or magnified the danger of inbreeding.
This statement is somewhat similar to "appealing to disgust"-a fallacy of appealing to emotions, claiming that something is wrong because you feel disgusted with something.
As for the tragedy of the Habsburg dynasty, it is also considered to be less typical, because they used the offspring of the inbreeding to rejoin the inbreeding, and the degree of genetic similarity is higher than that of the brothers and sisters.
In the vast majority of human society, the frequency of marriages between close relatives is far more than that, and the genes are not too similar.
Perhaps because of this, the proportion of close relatives in marriages is still not small. A data graph from AH Bittles. shows that 20% of marriages in green countries fall into this category, while pink countries do Accounted for 1%-10%.
In addition, although the incest taboo has become a universal principle globally, a closer look at the laws on marriage between relatives around the world reveals that not all regions are restricted.
In 2016, the British "Daily Mail" even reported that a 36-year-old mother and her 19-year-old son had sex with her 19-year-old son in New Mexico, the United States, and she was “in a crazy love”.
Subsequently, the mother and son were sued by neighbors for incest, but the mother believed that there was nothing to separate them.
It is said that the mother gave birth to her son at the age of 16 and did not contact him for nearly 20 years. When they met now, the "crazy feeling" appeared, and the son confessed to his mother, "I am in love with you, but I am afraid to let you know." Since then, the two fell in love.
This involves a concept called " hereditary sexual attraction ", which refers to sexual attraction between close relatives. It usually occurs when parents and children meet for the first time in adulthood, or siblings who did not grow up together. It is a similar inheritance of both parties. Caused by genes.
It's really ridiculous, and I don't know whether it should be a crime or whether it is a crime.
03 Culture
After the 16th century, paintings on the subject of incest began to increase.
For example, the French academic painter William Bouguereau’s "Biblis" is based on Kanos in Greek mythology. Because his sister refused the courtship, he kept crying and eventually turned into a spring fairy.
There is also Francesco Fulini's "Lot and the Daughters", which is based on the scenes of Lot and his daughters having sex in the Old Testament, which is full of threats.
Samuel Woodford also took a fancy to the same scene, but the paintings are more welcoming and everyday.
The Austrian painter Schiller did not take any materials, but demonstrated in person. For example, he let his sister be his body model, behaved intimately in the process, and even developed jealousy towards his brother-in-law.
Of course, incest is also the subject most enthusiastically described in later literature.
For example, "The Bear" in the fairy tale collection "Five Days" says that a father who is a king has fallen in love with his daughter and asked her to marry him. The daughter was unwilling, so she turned into a bear and fled to the forest.
The " Snow White " in the first edition of "The Grimm's Fairy Tales" also tells that when the princess was seven years old, she had incest with her father, and she also coveted her birth mother and tried to replace it.
The biological mother killed the rebellious daughter and put her body in a glass coffin until one day a necrophilic prince came, unable to fall in love with the living woman, because she saw the sick beauty of the princess in the coffin, she put her body in a glass coffin. Take it away, day and night.
Marquez's "A Hundred Years of Solitude" is a taboo around incest.
Jiang Fangzhou wrote in the article "A Hundred Years of Solitude that is Not Difficult to Understand":
In the process of reproduction of the Buendia family, their biggest fear is incest. Because incest will give birth to children with pig tails, it will cause the extinction of the entire family.
But incest still happened, so just like Oedipus poking his eyes into atonement, the entire Macondo was swept away by the Doomsday Hurricane.
As for movies, although there are not as many as in East Asia, one can also say one or two, such as [One Tree Pear Blossom Pressed Begonia] .
University professor Han Ba married the widow Charlotte, but fell in love with Charlotte's 14-year-old daughter Lolita—his stepdaughter.
The movie [Mother, Limits of Love] starring in Hupel talks about the fact that after many years, the son finally returned to his parents, but he was too attached to his mother, and even prayed for his father's death for this reason.
One night, the mother and son were drunk, and the mother asked, "I'm going to bed, are you coming?" The son asked back, "Do you want it?" The mother replied, "Yes." So, the two were hugged together, and the son was going. She wanted to commit incest, but her mother sighed and squatted away.
After she died, her son began to comfort her corpse.
There is also [Blend Love ] , the 14-year-old girl Marianne fell in love with her stepfather, and she lay on the bed and asked him "what is the most missing thing I want to be a woman". Seeing that her stepfather loved to answer, she couldn't help but rush Go into his arms and say "Isn't I caught your attention".
Woody Allen’s [Ferris Wheel] refers to the fact that his father saw his daughter again after five years. Instead of the previous tit-for-tat, he became extremely eager. First he would bake chocolate cookies for her, and then take her fishing. I get angry when I see her going out on a date.
Finally, the father's successor wife couldn't bear it, and shouted, "Admit it, you treat her like a girlfriend!"
I'm afraid this is the closest thing Woody Allen has to his private life since he started in the movie.
In the film, the stepmother doesn't like her stepdaughter, she finds faults over and over again, and even threatens her not to go to night school. And Song Yi's adoptive mother did not wait to see her, saying several times that she would be sent to the orphanage.
[Ferris Wheel] Perhaps it was Woody's understatement of confession.
[Queen of Hearts] is colder and darker than all incest movies.
The private relationship between the stepmother and the stepson was revealed. In order to protect herself, the stepmother, as a lawyer, said that everything was made up by the stepson. The irony is chilling.
It turned out that when she knelt on the ground in a surrender posture, she was just welcoming the desire that she had suppressed in her long work and life, but now suddenly awakened, instead of loving him.
So the stepson left with resentment and froze to death in the white snow.
This is also the reason why the two types of " between an adult and a minor " and " between a minor brother and sister " are criminalized and regarded as child sexual abuse in incest and abnormal love .
In 2015, Harvard University introduced a policy with the keyword " unequal status ", which believed that adults, regardless of knowledge, experience, or other things, far exceeded the imagination of minors.
Minors who are young in the world are easily attracted by adults. Such attraction does not come from equal identities and evenly matched experience, but from a young man's adoration of knowledge monopolists at a necessary stage of his life.
If an adult takes advantage of this emotion, or in other words, takes advantage of this existing unequal relationship to capture personal needs, thereby realizing their own interests, then whether this person is aware of it or not, it will be unfair to minors. Treat justly.
After all, like [Queen of Hearts], the scheming sinister and self-interestedness of the adult world is as cold and impermanent as a beast.
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