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Article: Incest discourse and cinematic representation
- Article from:
- Journal of Film and Video
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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CopyrightCopyright University Film and Video Association Summer 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Dedicated to Timothy J. Lyons
THE HISTORY OF INCEST LITERATURE, like most history, has been dominated by patriarchy. Freud's uncovering of the extent of incest and his subsequent recanting of his findings is well known. The shroud of secrecy, silence, and lies woven by patriarchy was ripped in the late 1970s by feminists, many of whom were psychologists, who revealed their and others' pain as survivors of incest.1 "Speak-outs" were organized that provided incest survivors with a forum to tell their stories as a means of educating the public about the dimensions of sexual violence in the home. They were meant to raise the consciousness of a society that was in denial about this issue. In the ...