Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface. The Family, Feminist Scholarship, and Mimetic Theory -- Introduction. Family Matters -- Part 1. In Search of Lost Time -- Prelude. Mothers -- Chapter 1. The Eyes of a Parricide -- Chapter 2. Of Madeleines, Mothers, and Montjouvain -- Chapter 3. The Journey Home Is through the World -- Part 2. Antigone -- Prelude. Siblings -- Chapter 4. The House of Labdacus: On Kinship and Sacrifice -- Chapter 5. Trauma and the Theban Cycle -- Chapter 6. Antigone and the Ethics of Intimacy -- Part 3. The Old Man and the Wolves -- Prelude. Fathers -- Chapter 7. Not a Country for Old Men: Violence and Mimesis in Santa Varvara -- Chapter 8. To Glimpse a World without Wolves: From Conflict to Compassion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.