I am because you are : relationality in the works of Siri Hustvedt I am because you are is a key passage in What I Loved (2003) contemporary American writer Siri Hustvedts third novel and a recurring motif throughout both her fictional and nonfictional work. This volume examines relational identity formation in her writing especially the relationship between self and other in photography and painting the transgression of corporeal boundaries in hysteria and anorexia and the effects of losing attachment figures on personal identity. Hustvedt reveals identity as a complex product of conscious and unconscious interconnections within the social and biol