Incest (book)
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| author = [[Anaïs Nin]]
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| language = [[English language|English]]
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| genre = [[Memoir]], [[Diary]]
| publisher = [[Harcourt Trade Publishers|Harcourt]]
| release_date = October [[1992]]
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| media_type = Print ([[Hardcover]] and [[Paperback]])
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| isbn = ISBN 0-15-144366-1
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'''''Incest: From a Journal of Love: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1932-1934)''''' is a [[1992]] non-fiction book by [[Anaïs Nin]]. It is a continuation of the diary entries first published in [[Henry & June]]. It features Nin's relationships with writer [[Henry Miller]], his wife [[June Miller]], the [[psychoanalyst]] [[Otto Rank]], her father [[Joaquin Nin]], and her husband [[Hugh Parker Guiler]]. She also copied some of her correspondence with these people into her diary. Much of this book was written in [[English language|English]], although those of her letters which were originally written in [[French language|French]] and [[Spanish language|Spanish]] were translated. Most of this diary takes place in [[France]], particularly [[Clichy]], [[Paris]] and [[Louveciennes]].
This book is followed by ''Fire: From a Journal of Love: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937''.
==Plot summary==
The book covers the conclusion of her and Henry's relationship with June, as well as her relationships with her analysts. Among other events, she re-establishes contact with her absent father Joaquin Nin, becomes pregnant with Miller's child and eventually has an abortion in her sixth month of pregnancy. She examines all of these events with a sharp eye through the filters of psychoanalysis, and herself becomes an experiment for psychoanalysis by symbolically appointing her husband Hugh Guiler as her father, Henry Miller as her husband, and her father as her lover.
==Influences==
Nin was in the midst of the [[surrealism]] movement, the [[psychoanalysis]] movement, and the [[expatriate]] community in Paris, and these intellectual influences upon her are evident in her diary entries. As well as providing a personal record of events, her diaries also chronicle the writing of various works including the novella ''Djuna'' from ''[[The Winter of Artifice]]'' and ''Alraune'' which was later titled ''[[House of Incest]]''. She edited Henry Miller's famous novel ''[[Tropic of Cancer (novel)]]'', over which she wielded considerable influence.
==Editions==
Anaïs Nin first began publishing expurgated versions of ''[[The Diary of Anaïs Nin]]'' in [[1966]], omitting many details of her personal and love life. In 1986, after virtually everybody mentioned in her diaries had died, [[Rupert Pole]], Nin's widower, began to publish what are now termed the "unexpurgated" versions of the diary. The "unexpurgated" versions of the diaries are more sexually frank than the versions published in the 1960s-'70s, and provide a fuller picture of her life. The new material casts her incestuous relationship with her father and her relationship with Henry Miller in new light.
[[Category:1992 books]]
[[Category:Literary autobiographies]]
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