ABSTRACT
In the beginning was the act, and the act was murder and incest. Psychoanalysis acknowledges how important these are for the Unconscious. Any civilizing influence or attempt at processing them mentally tends to end up in repression; yet they are still present in the life of each individual as in society itself, and they carry threats of destruction. Gang rapes are not incestuous . .. but can we be sure that, in the unconscious of those who perpetrate them, this is really the case?
