Comments on: Was Freud Right? Are You Sexually Attracted To Your Parents? http://popsych.org/was-freud-right-are-you-sexually-attracted-to-your-parents/ The Internet's Best Evolutionary Psycholo-guy Wed, 03 Jan 2018 01:05:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Jesse Marczyk http://popsych.org/was-freud-right-are-you-sexually-attracted-to-your-parents/#comment-324 Jesse Marczyk Sat, 04 Aug 2012 20:04:34 +0000 http://popsych.org/?p=130#comment-324 From the article: <blockquote>However, the claim that the taboo emerged as a preventive response to widespread incestuous attraction rather than as the expression of an almost universal aversion seems quite plausible and merits further scholarly attention.</blockquote> That explanation is problematic for a number of reasons, included among them are: (1) it fails to explain the aversion to inbreeding found in other species which lack explicit taboos, (2) it runs counter to the fact that most people do not feel incestuous attraction whatsoever, and (3) fails to explain, in any way, why such a taboo would arise in the first place if incestuous urges were "widespread". Might there be more to incest aversion than the Westermarck effect? Sure; why not? The taboo explanation, however, fails in every direction. From the article:

However, the claim that the taboo emerged as a preventive response to widespread incestuous attraction rather than as the expression of an almost universal aversion seems quite plausible and merits further scholarly attention.

That explanation is problematic for a number of reasons, included among them are: (1) it fails to explain the aversion to inbreeding found in other species which lack explicit taboos, (2) it runs counter to the fact that most people do not feel incestuous attraction whatsoever, and (3) fails to explain, in any way, why such a taboo would arise in the first place if incestuous urges were “widespread”.

Might there be more to incest aversion than the Westermarck effect? Sure; why not? The taboo explanation, however, fails in every direction.

]]> By: Ralph http://popsych.org/was-freud-right-are-you-sexually-attracted-to-your-parents/#comment-323 Ralph Sat, 04 Aug 2012 19:22:46 +0000 http://popsych.org/?p=130#comment-323 I was going through your site and saw this horrible post. For you to see better the problems of the Westermarck effect I would recommend this link: http://www.mcgill.ca/sociology/sites/mcgill.ca.sociology/files/2009_--_ajs.pdf This article shows how the methodology used to prove the Westermarck Kibbutzims sucks ..... ah, it's not a Freudian crap.... so dont worry I was going through your site and saw this horrible post. For you to see better the problems of the Westermarck effect I would recommend this link: http://www.mcgill.ca/sociology/sites/mcgill.ca.sociology/files/2009_–_ajs.pdf
This article shows how the methodology used to prove the Westermarck Kibbutzims sucks ….. ah, it’s not a Freudian crap…. so dont worry

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