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- Title
The Incest Motif in Wagner.
- Authors
Rank, Otto
- Abstract
32 The Wagner Journal, 15, 1, 32-42 The Incest Motif in Wagner Otto Rank Translated by Anthony Negus, introduced and edited by Christopher Wintle Born in Vienna in 1884, Otto Rank first met Sigmund Freud in 1905 and became secretary of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society in 1906. Siegmund is the father-in-law of his sister Brünnhilde, and the brother-in-law of his son (Siegfried); he is the husband of his sister (Sieglinde) and the father-in-law of the woman (Brünnhilde) whose father is the father-in-law of his son (Siegfried). 39 Sieglinde, and thus Siegfried's grandfather; but he is also the father of Brünnhilde, who is thus Siegfried's aunt as well as his lover. Nietzsche believed, writing Contra Wagner, that 'the preaching of chastity remains an incitement to unnaturalness: I despise anyone who does not regard Parsifal as an outrage upon morality'.] Rosalie Marbach, Wagner's eldest sister, to whom he had a strong emotional attachment The Incest Motif in Wagner 37 own origins.
- Subjects
INCEST; SIBLINGS; MATERNAL love; EROTICA
- Publication
Wagner Journal, 2021, Vol 15, Issue 1, p32
- ISSN
1755-0173
- Publication type
Article