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1 “Who Am I?”: Adoption as Identity Loss
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Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction 3
- “Who Am I?”: Adoption as Identity Loss 27
- Adoption, Power/Knowledge, and the “Materiality” of the Biological Tie 71
- The “Adoptee” and the Event of the “Individual” 111
- Twin and Adoption Studies and What They Tell Us about “Family” Experience 133
- Under the Influence of Psychoanalysis: Family Experience and Adoptee Subjectivity 159
- Scientia Familialis: Psychoanalysis, Bio-Narcissism, and the Constitution of the Adoptive Subject 181
- Genetic Sexual Attraction: The Place of Incest in Adoption Discourse 223
- Incest: The Universal of the Modern Western Family Subject 249
- New Oedipal Tragedies, New Family Experiences 277
- Conclusion 299
- Notes 311
- Bibliography 363
- Index 387
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction 3
- “Who Am I?”: Adoption as Identity Loss 27
- Adoption, Power/Knowledge, and the “Materiality” of the Biological Tie 71
- The “Adoptee” and the Event of the “Individual” 111
- Twin and Adoption Studies and What They Tell Us about “Family” Experience 133
- Under the Influence of Psychoanalysis: Family Experience and Adoptee Subjectivity 159
- Scientia Familialis: Psychoanalysis, Bio-Narcissism, and the Constitution of the Adoptive Subject 181
- Genetic Sexual Attraction: The Place of Incest in Adoption Discourse 223
- Incest: The Universal of the Modern Western Family Subject 249
- New Oedipal Tragedies, New Family Experiences 277
- Conclusion 299
- Notes 311
- Bibliography 363
- Index 387
