They are fathers, grandfathers, uncles, brothers… 98% men.
Corinne Masiero says she was
"incestuous"
from the age of 8 to 13 by a cousin 10 years older than her.
A testimony that the heroine of
Captain Marleau
delivers, with others just as moving, in
Incest, to say it and to hear it
.
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TV MAGAZINE. - You say that the trigger was a photo found during confinement…
Corinne MASIERO. -
It can be a trigger, indeed.
But why did I go looking for this photo?
Defense mechanisms are set up in us to protect us, the brain makes sure that we hide things from ourselves so as not to go crazy, and they reappear when we are able to hear them.
At some point, too, you feel the need to scratch to pierce the pocket of pus.
There have been other incests in my family.
I have never had a taboo.
“I had already done therapies before, it had not come out.
»
What was the contribution of your psychoanalysis?
I started it a year ago.
I had already done therapies before, it had not come out.
Other things had come back, other attacks.
It helped the rest emerge.
It also happened through encounters, life that makes you learn to fight, to defend yourself, to have more confidence in yourself and in others.
Because that's what incest destroys: we are faced with someone older, in the family hierarchy, who has the authority… Then, we no longer know who to trust.
And there is the guilt, we think that we may have said, done something to incite the aggressor.
How to fight against this scourge?
The word, the word, the word!
The classic family is a mini-society.
When there's a tsunami like that, it all blows up.
Lots of people just don't want to talk about it.
After my show,
The Godfather IV,
or the concerts with my group Les Vaginites where we talk about incest, there are always people who come to see us.
Speaking on stage gives a form of legitimacy to talk about it to an unknown person.
The first jet comes out, then you have to purge the rest.
Since I've been talking about it, many friends have positively progressed towards a form of healing, of being better in any case.
And we have to change mentalities.
I really like a slogan that was on TV a long time ago:
"Thank you for getting involved in what does not concern you"
.
I'm not Zorro but I'm watching what's going on and I don't hesitate to intervene.
When you become a sexual object, you no longer exist, you deny yourself completely
Corinne Masiero
Are there other fights?
The government should release funds to educate, protect children, break taboos, welcome victims, set up structures to deal with aggressors.
Because prison solves nothing.
In particular, there is an association, L'ange bleu, which talks on the phone or via the Internet with men ready to take action.
This sometimes leads to questioning.
The perpetrators of incest must realize that they are destroying people, lives.
Have you managed to find a form of serenity?
Sometimes yes, in the morning, no at noon, again yes at 6 pm... Sometimes yes all day then no all week... It's something you carry with you until the end.
It did not penetrate me but it penetrated my soul.
When one becomes a sexual object, one no longer exists, one denies oneself completely.
Everyone lives it in their own way, as they can.
We often reproduce incestuous gestures or violence, rage.
Mostly, it comes out against oneself and leads to self-destruction, as for me, with drugs, prostitution… But it can also come out against others.
Institutions must avoid it.
Especially since all the disasters that this entails have economic consequences: when you dive into dope or something else... And then, humanly,
Terrifying numbers
The documentary illustrates the testimonies with figures - terrifying - on incest: 10% of French people are victims of it, 80% of sexual assaults on minors take place within the family, 1 victim out of 5 is a boy, half of victims have traumatic amnesia, 6 out of 10 victims are not supported when they speak, half of the victims attempt suicide...
