Note 89 — Chapter II · TABOO AND THE AMBIVALENCE OF EMOTIONS (continued 2)

It is an interesting parallel that the sense of guilt resulting from the violation of a taboo is in no way diminished if the violation took place unwittingly (see examples above), and that even in the Greek myth the guilt of Oedipus is not cancelled by the fact that it was incurred without his knowledge and will and even against them.