Incestuality

She was unnoticed before and after the loss of her nanny, at age seven. Yet, when Diane grew into her adolescent years, and began to paint and sculpt, her father was quickly to claim her creative talents as a reflection of his own blood rendered legacy. Now, she suddenly became his daughter. Perhaps it was partly his own “veiled eroticism” and suppressed incestuality that actually impelled in her the compulsion to create, taking its form in her sculptures of swelling pregnant women.

[F]amily also appears a double-edged sword, as it can be a source of severe exploitation when familial understandings or arrangements are violated—as in Harold’s coveting of his brother’s wife or the incestuality implied in Francis’s various father/daughter relationships or the lack of love and appreciation we learn, at the film’s very close, that Christina has suffered from at home.

Here we are in the area of incest, when a transgressive act occurs, or in the area of incestuality, when there is a confusing encroachment on the differences between the topical levels of containers.