Turning a blind eye to incest

In the realm of psychoanalysis, few topics elicit reactions as intense, deep-seated, and divided as incest, which refers to the occurrence of sexual behaviours between closely related individuals, an act that violates society’s most sacrosanct and pro-tected taboos. Moreover, there are few circumstances that present psychoanalysts with more intricate, distressing, and potentially problematic clinical dilemmas and challenges than the treatment of incest victims or the handling of situations where incest has been suspected or alleged by one family member, only to be vehemently denied, often accompanied by pain and outrage, by the accused individual and/or other members of the family