Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2010
Titel der Quelle:
תיאוריה וביקורת; במה ישראלית
Angaben zur Quelle:
37 (2010) 69-95
Keywords:
שבתאי, ננו,
;
Jews Psychology
;
Daughters of Lot (Biblical figures)
;
Sex customs
;
Sex crimes (Jewish law)
;
Domestic relations (Jewish law)
;
Jewish families Religious life
;
Families Religious aspects
;
Judaism
Abstract:
This article describes the incest taboo on father-daughter relations and its decisive role — mainly through its absence from language — in establishing the father’s domination of the daughter. It argues that the incest taboo is predicated on a paradox, which lies at the heart of the problematics of father-daughter relations. The paradox consists in the fact that both the prohibition against incestual relations between the father and the daughter and its transgression preserve the patriarchal structure — that is, the normative social structure. On the one hand, compliance with this taboo still retains a sublimated form of incestual relations; on the other hand, violations of the taboo on father-daughter incest are, in reality, so common as to raise the suspicion that the very fabric of social organization enables them, perhaps even encourages them. Quite cunningly, the lack of an explicit taboo (on father-daughter incest) allows the father to deny the transitory nature of his power and to exercise it beyond the boundaries of his daughter’s status as a subject in his house. The article analyzes the story of Lot’s daughters as a biblical manifestation of the incest theme, and examines in detail the roots of the absence of prohibition (on father-daughter incest) in the Bible. Then, it suggests that daughters can dispossess the father of his symbolic and representative position, in a way that enables them to break out of his incestual domination and express their own desire and their own subjectivity. The final part of the essay analyzes the female’s perspective on incest, through a poem written by Nano Shabtai, a young Israeli poet, daughter of the poet Aharon Shabtai. Shabtai writes her own version of the story of Lot’s daughters in order to face the incest paradox, the seduction by the father and her own constructed role of “seducer.”
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
Permalink