Del incesto en el el día del amor. (uo uo!)

Hace como 9 años escribí un ensayo que se llama Del ser, del amor y de la esencia. Era una diatriba barata que racionalizaba el por qué una mujer de la cual estaba perdidamente enamorado no me hizo caso nunca. En fin. La filosofía ya no es muy de mi agrado, así que le pirateé a mi compita Georges Bataille, filósofo francés meta-Hegeliano, algunos pasajes de su libro: "Eroticism", con motivo del día del amor que tanto nos gusta celebrar. Vaya aquí mi pequeño homenaje a este día. ¿Por qué incesto? Es una dimensión taboo de la sexualidad humana y al igual que el amor, una dimensión cuya transgresión comparte elementos eróticos y sensuales con el amor.(...porque los que queremos ser pelacocos también tenemos nuestro corazoncito).

Salut.

PD. La Mevita me regaló el CD "Love" de los Beatles. Está muy retegüenísimo...se los recomiendo...y al que no le gusten los "bicles"...que rechine sus muelas.

The enigma of incest (p. 217)

"...the prohibition of incest...is the primary step thanks to which, through which, and especially in which, the transition from Nature to Culture is made. The horror of incest thus embodies a factor which makes humans of us and the problem it poses is the problem of man himself as far as he adds a human element to animal nature. In consequence all that we are is a stake in our decision to eschew the loose freedom of sexual conduct and the natural and unformulated life of the animals."

"The finalist theory invests tabboo with a eugenic significance: the race must be protected from the results of consaguineous marriages...There is nothing more common today than the belief of degeneracy of the children of an incestuous union...(but)...the observed facts do not confirm this superstition in any way...(Also), psychoanalists agree that the prohibition of incest is an instinctive repugnance...(However), the disaproval which does not exist with animals is a historical occurrence, a result of the changes that made human life what it is; it is not simply part of the order of things. Historical advances are advanced to meet this criticism..."

"...(In primitive societies), to acquire a wife was acquire wealth, and moreover, her value was sacred. The distribution of wealth constituted by the total number of women posed vital problems calling for certain regulations...Cycles of exchange in which rights are settled in advance are the only method of guaranteeing, sometimes rather inadequately but more often more efficiently, the fair distribution of the women among the men wanting them."

"The father marrying his daughter, the brother marrying his sister would be like the man with a cellar full of champagne who drank it all up by himself and never asked a friend in to share it. The father must bring the wealth his daughter represents into a cycle of ceremonial exchanges. He must bestow her as a gift but the cycle entails a number of rules valid within a given social group just like the rules of a game."

"The arbitrary division between relations with whom marriage is permissible and those with whom it is forbidden varies with the need to guarantee cycles of exchange. When these organized cycles cease to be of use the scope of incest diminishes."

"In one sense, marriage combines economic interest and purity, sensuality and the taboo on sensuality, generosity and avarice, But its first movement puts it at the other extreme; it is a gift...The gift itself is a renunciation, the refusal of an immediate animal satisfaction with no strings attached. Marriage is a matter less for the parents than for the man who gives the woman away, the man whether father or brother who might have freely enjoyed the woman, daughter or sister, yet who bestows her on someone else. This gift is perhaps a substitute of the sexual act; for the exuberance of giving has a significance akin to that of the act itself: it is also a spending of resources...Even if there is some relief in giving as there is in the sexual act it is not at all an animal physical relief; its trascendent nature belongs essentially to man. For a close relation to renounce his right, to forgo the enjoyment of his own property: this is what defines human beings in complete contrast to the greeding animals. As I have said, such renunciation enhances the value of the thing renounced. But this is also a contribution to the creation of the human world in which respect, difficulty and reservations are victorious over violence. It complements eroticism which heightens the value of the object of desire. Without the conterbalance of the respect for the forbidden objects of value there would be no eroticism."

"...The state of marriage enables man to live a human life in which respect for taboo contrasts with the untrammelled satisfaction of animal needs."