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This chapter considers some limitations of the biological-cultural analogy in (ecocritical) adaptation studies, and proposes Lacanian psychoanalysis as an alternative to the evolutionary account of textual adaptation. The chapter demonstrates the differences between these methods by considering how contemporary reworkings of the Biblical “Noah” narrative keep or alter various aspects of the hypotext. Given that at least one key task of ecocriticism is the urgent need to explain why our political, social, and cultural institutions are not making the necessary changes to avoid and ameliorate real-world ecological disaster, the psychoanalytic account identifies one enduring aspect of that self-destructive passivity.

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Is Adaptation Natural? Ecocritical Repercussions of Conceptualizing Adaptation as Memetic Evolution and/or as (Re)Iterations in the Signifying Chain

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    2026年

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  • Robert Geal

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This chapter considers some limitations of the biological-cultural analogy in (ecocritical) adaptation studies, and proposes Lacanian psychoanalysis as an alternative to the evolutionary account of textual adaptation. The chapter demonstrates the differences between these methods by considering how contemporary reworkings of the Biblical “Noah” narrative keep or alter various aspects of the hypotext. Given that at least one key task of ecocriticism is the urgent need to explain why our political, social, and cultural institutions are not making the necessary changes to avoid and ameliorate real-world ecological disaster, the psychoanalytic account identifies one enduring aspect of that self-destructive passivity.