A not very masculine activity: father-daughter incest

Although incest is most frequently practised by men, this passage to the act is far from being a truly masculine activity. In the disobjectalizing relation instigated by the incestuous father, the latter expresses the paradox of a drive activity that has an active aim in the search for a budding femininity that it attempts to appropriate by petrifying. The incestuous man does not seek to integrate a psychic bisexuality that is always conflictual, it aims on the contrary to render sexuality and the difference of the sexes a conflictual. In his case the conflict between masculinity and femininity is not intra-psychic. This conflictuality is activated in the bond (which is not really a bond) with his daughter, in a confrontation and desperate fight to possess the biological attributes of both man and woman.