Claire Adrian: Incest, A Way Of Life

We should not be surprised at the role of the teen-aged girl as a seductress. After all, females of the species have used their bodies seductively throughout history.

Dr. Emil Cliberg, a Chicago psychiatrist, says: "The early teenaged girl is not quite sure of her feelings. At times she is sheer TNT about sex and will be utterly ruthless in order to win a man and receive his sexual attentions. At other times, she is completely indifferent about sex and experiences negative feelings about men and sex."

Dr. Cliber explains why it is the adult male who is usually blamed in cases of "adult/teenage" sex. "It's because of our system of social values," Dr. Cliberg says. "The teenage girl, who is not an adult, is not invested with adult responsibility. She is supposedly 'pure' and 'innocent' and can do no wrong; and so we find that there are countless cases where men of responsibility and respectability have faltered before the temptation of a teenager's body. We find a different sort of psychology in other cases, where both man and girl sense the other's desires and intentions, this making it possible for them to come together quickly, without any preliminaries, fear or guilt."

What are the psychosexual motivations that drive the teenage boy and girl to seduce an adult? Are these motivations identical to the ones which drive a teenager to seduce a parent and/or another relative?

The answer is yes. For it is the incest impulse (or wish) that leads many young boys and girls (but usually girls) to the active seduction of an adult of the opposite sex. More often than not, this incest wish is on a subconscious level, in which case we may or may not find generalized promiscuity. If the incest wish is known to the ego, i.e., in the conscious mind, then we usually find full-blown incest (or at least an attempt at it), provided other motivations are present.

There are four of these motivations, and either one or more may stand out as the strongest compelling forces in the life of a teenager burdened with incestuous impulses. There are: material desires; hostility; the castration wish; the Electra complex.

Some teenagers seduce a parent, etc., for the pure materiality the sex act brings: gifts, money, privileges, etc.

Most authorities agree that hostility, latent and real, plays an important role in the development of a teenage sexual delinquent. Today's teenagers seethe with hostility: resentment for their parents, for brothers and sisters, for the "Establishment," for most adults, and all authority. Boys work out their hostilities by committing crimes, by becoming truants and dropouts. Drugs is another means of release. Girls, however, almost always use sex as the media for their hostility. They'll copulate with boys in the back seats of cars and in motels; they'll dress in a way that exposes their young bodies; they'll seduce older men-even their own fathers.

We find that the castration wish motivates a large number of girls toward promiscuity and incest. This complex has been described in various ways by various psychiatrists. Basically it is the girl's subconscious drive to castrate the male. It is part of the girl's first subconscious feelings, usually first directed toward her father. This wish to castrate stems from deeply rooted feelings of inadequacies within the female because she does not possess a penis. Early sexual intercourse will, for some girls, feed this castration wish because once involved in the act she is psychically performing a "castration" upon the male-hiding, or taking his penis from him.

There is another medium a girl might utilize to "castrate** the male, if she is adverse to intercourse-fellatio. Instead of "castrating" the man with her vagina, she accomplishes it with her mouth… Here, we will do well to remember the words of Diane W-, quoted earlier: "Too, I knew I would enjoy blowing Dad's big fucker! Even thinking about it made me want to grab his cock with my teeth and bite it off! Isn't that silly?

No, it isn't. Not to a psychiatrist.

The Electra complex is a psychological term used to describe a young female's subconscious wish to replace her mother and experience sexual intercourse with the father. Latent in most girls, it is usually resolved late in life; and for some Oedipally inclined females, the subconscious wish is brought to the consciousness and actually acted out* either with the father or with-a father-figure.

Along with these four motivations are other drives that work toward producing the incestuous teenage syndrome. For example, some teenagers fall into a pattern of immorality because of an oral-dependent drive. This means that their total personality structure is organized around receiving satisfaction of an oral nature (especially true of male homosexuals). Such boys and girls have what psychiatrists call oral-aggressive character formation; and like her counterpart of the dependent drive, this type of girl, too, makes very active efforts to obtain gratification; yet there is a difference in that with the oral-aggressive the gratification is far more important than the effort. The oral-aggressive type of girl is not passive; on the contrary, she is very active in that she arouses the hostility of both parents and teachers because she is demanding, insisting on having her own way, and persisting in trying to get it. Grasping and insatiable, utterly and completely selfish, the oral-aggressive makes use of every available device to get what she wants. When her methods become asocial, she is then known as the psychopathic type.

Both these drives, as well as the other aforementioned factors, will be fully explained as the book progresses.

As we have seen, thus far, there are many colors to the total picture of incest; there are even more shades to the psychosexuality which, somehow, produces a teenager who seduces members within her own family group.

A teenager must have an adult partner who is willing, this meaning that we must first have the man or woman (father, mother, brother, sister, etc.) who is receptive to the teenage incestuous thrust, the man or woman with a psychosexual predilection for incest. We must have those motivations which impel the teenager toward incest, such as the castration wish (also known as penis envy), or perhaps the Electra complex, etc. As a rule there must be a dominance of a specific character formation, particularly the oral-aggressive drive.

If all of these conditions and elements are present, the result may be the incestuous teenage syndrome. It is.

The five case histories presented in this work are true. Three were obtained from psychiatrists who, because they did not reveal the names of the patients, did faith with medical ethics. Two of the case were obtained from court and police files. For obvious reasons, the names of the subjects are fictional.

The language used in the case histories is the language used by the individual in the taped interview (edited only slightly for purposes of grammatical and rhetorical clarity). There is no question that such vulgarisms as "fuck," "suck," "prick," "cunt," etc., are considered filthy and obscene; yet they are still but words. We have not deleted them for two reasons:

1. To replace these indelicate words with legal-medical terms would distort the personality of the subject involved and perhaps alter what the subject is attempting to convey.

An honest psychosexual study and/or analysis cannot be presented unless the meaning of words is made absolutely clear.

2. It would be a disservice to the reader if the case histories were not presented as they were obtained.

It should also be noted that neither the author nor the publishers of this book condone nor advocate any of the practices described in the case studies. As a sincere psychosexual study, this work is intended only for mature adults.

– Joseph R. Rosenberger, Ph.D.