Steeped in blood : adoption, identity, and the definition of family
Record details
- ISBN: 9780773558007
- ISBN: 9780773557994
- ISBN: 0773558004
- ISBN: 0773557997
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Physical Description:
1 online resource.
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Computer data. - Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.
Content descriptions
General Note: | CatMonthString:october.19 Multi-User. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | "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. |
Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription. |
Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by JSTOR. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Adoptees Adoption Families Identity (Psychology) Adoptees Adoption Families FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering Identity (Psychology) JSTOR-DDA Multi-User. |
Genre: | Electronic books. |