


Usually the unacceptable feelings are repressed and retreat into the unconscious.

But the son knows that these feelings cannot continue, for they might lead the father to retaliate against him therefore, they must be renounced or repressed. 57 He suggested that the son is attracted to his mother (as the daughter is to her father) and as a result feels jealousy and hostility toward his father. Sigmund Freud proposed that the incest taboo is a reaction against unconscious, unacceptable desires. Your computer does not support HTML5 audio
