Citations:pseudoincestuous

Noun: "of, related to, or involving pseudoincest"

 * 1962, The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, Volume 16, page 138:
 * It is fear, the guardian of the hidden treasure, as Beowulf's dragon guarded the sacred cave. The typical hero of the medieval artist has an immature, androgenous aspect before he fights and pays the sacrificial price. The psychological interpretation of the fight is the liberation of the libido from its pseudoincestuous fixation on the mother-beast, through which wound or loss of organ or limb the new birth is attained.
 * 1963, Violation of Taboo: Incest in the Great Literature of the Past and Present (eds. Donald Webster Cory & Robert E. L. Masters), page 17:
 * Another development of what might be termed a pseudoincestuous situation is described by Pamela Frankau in Ask Me No More, where there is an involvement between a woman and her ex-husband's son.
 * 1976, Warren Beck, Faulkner, page 238:
 * There are real and significant ambivalences in Horace and they are to be seen rising to the surface in his compulsive pseudoincestuous musings about this stepdaughter, as he drunkenly confesses them to an odd audience of strangers, the men at Frenchman's Bend.
 * 1994, Susan Rusinko, The Plays of Benn Levy: Between Shaw and Coward, page 158:
 * So begins another of Levy’s many games of truths, played out in a pseudoincestuous story of a daughter (Lennie) newly returned from Canada to a home in which guilt-infestation has taken its toll on her mother (Nina) and her stepfather (Kell).
 * 1995, Kathryn J. Zerbe, Body Betrayed: Deeper Understanding of Women, Eating Disorders, and Treatment, page 25:
 * Jennifer maintained a distorted body image and the delusion that her male psychiatrist was attempting to poison her and disrupt her pseudoincestuous bond with her father.
 * 1998, Encyclopedia of the Novel (ed. Paul Schellinger), Volume 1, page 779:
 * However, married to Lolita’s mother, he has forfeited any claim to real affection by his pseudoincestuous violation of the bond between child and stepfather which has deprived Lolita of her childhood.
 * 2004, Celia A. Easton, "Emma and Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison, in Approaches to Teaching Austen's Emma (ed. Mary McClintock Folsom), page 66:
 * Austen frequently explores the strength of pseudoincestuous relationships in her novels. Because, in Mansfield Park, Fanny Price is nearly a sister to Edmund Bertram, she understands him with an insight and intimacy never achieved by spouses who meet as adults.
 * 2010, Tomoko Aoyama & Judy Wakabayashi, "Identity and Relationships in Translated Japanese Literature", in Literature in Translation: Teaching Issues and Reading Practices (eds. Carol Maier & Françoise Massardier-Kenney), page 106:
 * This aspect of the narrative introduces not only a kind of oedipal theme but also a pseudoincestuous relationship with Fujitsubo, the new favorite of Genji’s father, the emperor, after Kiritsubo’s death.
 * This aspect of the narrative introduces not only a kind of oedipal theme but also a pseudoincestuous relationship with Fujitsubo, the new favorite of Genji’s father, the emperor, after Kiritsubo’s death.