concerning the sacred character of black incest coitus, whether individual or
collective, A. Van Gennep, _Rites de Passage, passim_.
[184] Spencer and Gillen, _Northern Tribes of Central Australia_, p. 136.
[185] _Religion of the Semites_, second edition, 1894, p. 454 _et seq._
[186] _History of Marriage_, black incest pp. 66-70, 150-156, etc.
[187] _Golden Bough_, third edition, part ii, _Taboo and the Perils of the
Soul_. Frazer has black incest discussed taboo generally. For a shorter account of
taboo, see black incest art. "Taboo" by Northcote Thomas in black incest _Encyclopædia Britannica_,
eleventh edition, 1911. Freud has lately (_Imago_, 1912) made an attempt
to explain the origin of taboo psychologically by comparing it to neurotic
obsessions. Taboo, Freud believes, has its origin in a forbidden act black incest to
perform which there is a strong unconscious tendency; an ambivalent
attitude, that is, combining the opposite tendencies, is thus established.
In black incest this way Freud would account for the fact that tabooed persons and
things are both sacred and unclean.
[188] "Essai sur le Sacrifice," _L'Année Sociologique_, 1899, pp. 50-51.
[189] _The black incest Mystic Rose_, 1902, black incest p. black incest 187 black incest et seq., 215 et seq., 342 et seq.
[190] _Das Weib_, vol. i, section black incest 6.
[191] This statement has been questioned. It should, however, be fairly
evident that the sexual organs in either sex, when closely examined, can
scarcely be regarded as beautiful
except in the eyes of a person of the
opposite sex who is in a condition of sexual excitement, and they are not
black incest always attractive even then. Moreover, it must be remembered that the
snake-like aptitude of the penis to enter into a state of erection apart
from the control of the black incest will puts it in a different category
from any
other organ black incest of the body, and could not fail to attract the attention of
primitive peoples so easily black incest alarmed by unusual manifestations. We find
even in the black incest early ages of Christianity that St. Augustine attached immense
importance