pseudoincest

• PI

pseudo- +‎ incest

pseudoincest (uncountable)

1. (erotica) Erotica or other fiction focused on sexual situations between family members who are not blood relations, (e.g., siblings by adoption, stepparents and stepchildren, in-laws).
   • 2001, Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen, "Introduction", in The Father-Daughter Plot: Japanese Literary Women and the Law of the Father (eds. Rebecca L. Copeland & Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen), University of Hawai'i Press (2001), →ISBN, page 4:

     One of the most disturbing scenes in this narrative is surely the night he deflowers the still childlike girl whom he has been rearing as an adopted daughter, making her his wife. This act, striking the modern reader as no different from father-daughter rape or incestuous abuse, momentarily tears apart the haze of aesthetic/erotic illusion and makes one wonder about the reality of paternal domination behind the fiction of pseudoincest.

   • 2002, David Garrett Izzo, The Writings of Richard Stern: The Education of an Intellectual Everyman, McFarland & Company (2002), →ISBN, page 84:

     What really matters within the overall plot is that while Sam, who is 57, tries to clear his son, he meets his son's former lover, Jacqueline, who was a very young French operative during the war and still is very young shortly after it. They begin an affair. […] There is a pseudoincest factor ripe enough to raise a jaded Freud's eyebrows and just as many twists of fate to fool even Tiresias.

   • 2011, Graham Joyce, "Narrative and Regeneration: The Little Monsters Of Templeton by Lauren Groff", 21st-century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000 (ed. Danel Olson), Scarecrow Press (2011), →ISBN, pages 450-451:

     The suggestion that Heathcliff was Earnshaw's illegitimate child won't go away. What is unthinkable is that this never occurred to Emily Brontë. The implication is a structural ghost that twists and shapes the subsequent narrative. We are not dealing with pseudoincest at all, but incest in all its colors.