Abstract
In 1933, Anais Nin thirty years old, meets again with her beloved father, the pianist and composer Joachin Nin. She did not see him since the age of eleven when he left his family for a mistress. She then started to write a diary. I want to show that you can make links and interpret the material and associations of her diary like the material of a psychoanalysis or a psychotherapy. When they meet again, he behaves like an incestual father telling her his love affairs and his sexual life with her mother. Then he relates to her an incestuous dream with her and acts like a lover until the consummate incest. She seems to consent but feels guilty, between fear and desire, and disgust. She will complain of intense heart beats, death anxiety and loss of joy. Through her Journal of Incest (1932-1934) and her Youth Journal (1914-1919), I will try to understand how such an incest can happen. The father is an incestuous father who has no taboo of the incest, does not recognize the difference between generations, does not respect the body intimacy of his daughter and treat her like a narcissistic object. He fluctuates between psychosis without symptoms and narcissistic perversion. Anais has a hysterical personality, with separation anxiety, psychosomatic and pervert symptoms. This patchwork evokes a borderline state. She acts sometimes like a narcissistic pervert.
Highlights
Freud publishes in 1913 Totem and Taboo [11]
In 1995, Incest and Incestual of French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Paul Claude Racamier [18] makes a link between psychosis and incest
Racamier [18] conceived of the idea of “incestual” for psychotic patients and psychotic symptoms without evident psychosis
Summary
Freud publishes in 1913 Totem and Taboo [11]. He is interested by the fear of incest in primitive societies. Two important bans in totemism, (kill the totem and have sex with a women of the totem) can be related to the oedipal interdictions (kill the father and have sex with the mother). The dual ban of touching by the psychoanalyst Daniel Anzieu [1] in 1984 will show a new interest for incest. In 1995, Incest and Incestual of French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Paul Claude Racamier [18] makes a link between psychosis and incest. For Racamier, incest is a violence done to the body and the mind, with both a traumatism and a disqualification. Claude Balier [4] in 1996 considers incest as a sexual perversion
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