Abstract
JHLOW DOES one organize the categories that we call deviance? To examine the nosology of the deviant in modern (post-Enlightenment) culture one is constrained to use categories of analysis that arise in the spheres of law, medicine, and the social sciences. That is, the history of deviance in popular and high culture comes to be the reworking of scientific categories of difference that overlay the fantasies of difference, often more complex and more far-reaching than the models themselves. Incest is just such a category of deviance in modern culture. One of the most interesting phenomena in the intense, public debate over the past decade about child abuse and incest is the virtual absence of sibling incest as a topic of concern.1 Ian Hacking has explored the history and philosophy of memory/false memory and the literature on child abuse in the context of the modern
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