Chapters in this book

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