filiation

Critical Saidian concepts, such as filiation and affiliation, flicker into view, assuming an unwarranted familiarity.

"Chris was notified of the paternity matter and an order of filiation was issued last month by the court saying he had joint legal custody and reasonable visitation privileges," she said.

But his response to Le Pen’s comment about his childlessness was something more earnest and full-throated, an impassioned rejection of the decrepit social order that limits filiation to a man and his seed.

The literal, rather than political, implications of her filiation tend to receive little analysis.

But this question of filiation tormented Baldwin considerably.