Steeped in blood : adoption, identity, and the definition of family /

"What personal truths reside in biological ties that are absent in adoptive ties? And why do we think adoptive and biological ties are essentially different when it comes to understanding who we are? At a time when interest in DNA and ancestry is exploding, Frances Latchford questions the idea...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Latchford, Frances J. (Frances Joan) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Adoption.
Adoptees.
Families.
Identity (Psychology)
Nuclear families.
Adoptés.
Familles.
Identité (Psychologie)
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Who am I?": adoption as identity loss
  • Adoption, power/knowledge, and the "materiality" of the biological tie
  • The "adoptee" and the event of the "individual"
  • Twin and adoption studies and what they tell us about "family" experience
  • Under the influence of psychoanalysis: family experience and adoptee subjectivity
  • Scientia familialis: psychoanalysis, bio-narcisissm, and the constitution of the adoptive subject
  • Genetic sexual attraction: the place of incest in adoption discourse
  • Incest: the universal of the modern Western family subject
  • New Oedipal tragedies, new family experiences
  • Conclusion.

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