Mary Eberstadt's 'Primal Screams' argues that identity politics is a direct consequence of the sexual revolution's dissolution of family bonds, leaving generations unable to answer the question 'Who am I?' with reference to kinship. Eberstadt, a conservative writer and Senior Fellow at the Faith and Reason Institute, contends that when family structures weaken, people seek identity through other forms of belonging, including race, gender, and sexuality. She traces how the decline of marriage, rising rates of single parenthood and divorce, and the attenuation of extended family networks have left many Americans without the stable relationships that once provided identity. This thesis challenges both left-wing accounts that treat identity politics as a response to discrimination and right-wing accounts that attribute it to campus ideology. Eberstadt instead locates the cause in social transformations that cut across political lines. The book draws on sociology, psychology, and cultural criticism to develop its argument, examining phenomena from the rise of therapy culture to the popularity of genealogy services as symptoms of identity hunger. Readers may find the argument provocative or reductive depending on their priors, but Eberstadt offers a distinctive perspective on contemporary cultural conflict.