As a linguist, Julia Kristeva has pioneered a revolutionary theory of the sign in its relation to social and political emancipation; as a practicing psychoanalyst, she has produced work on the nature of the human subject and sexuality, and on the...
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As a linguist, Julia Kristeva has pioneered a revolutionary theory of the sign in its relation to social and political emancipation; as a practicing psychoanalyst, she has produced work on the nature of the human subject and sexuality, and on the "new maladies" of today's neurotic. The Portable Kristeva is the only fully comprehensive compilation of Kristeva's key writings. The second edition includes added material from Kristeva's most important works of the past five years, including The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt, Intimate Revolt, and Hannah Arendt. Editor Kelly Oliver has also added new
European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
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Contents; Preface: About This Collection vii; Introduction: Kristeva's Revolutions xi; PART 1 Kristeva's Trajectory: In Her Own Words 1; My Memory's Hyperbole 3; PART 2 The Subject in Signifying Practice 23; Revolution in Poetic Language 27; Prolegomenon 27; The Semiotic and the Symbolic 32; Negativity: Rejection 70; Desire in Language 93; From One Identity to an Other 93; Time and Sense 116; Is Sensation a Form of Language? 116; Freudian Time 129; PART 3 Psychoanalysis of Love: A Counterdepressant 133; Tales of Love 137; Freud and Love: Treatment and Its Discontents 137
Throes of Love: The Field of the Metaphor 162Extraterrestrials Suffering for Want of Love 170; Black Sun 180; Psychoanalysis-A Counterdepressant 180; New Maladies of the Soul 203; The Clinic: The Soul and the Image 203; In Times Like These, Who Needs Psychoanalysts? 209; PART 4 Individual and National Identity 225; Powers of Horror 225; Approaching Abjection 229; From Filth to Defilement 248; Strangers to Ourselves 264; Toccata and Fugue for the Foreigner 264; Might Not Universality Be . . . Our Own Foreignness? 282; In Practice . . . 292; PART 5 Maternity, Feminism, and Female Sexuality 295
Desire in Language 303Motherhood According to Giovanni Bellini 303; Tales of Love 310; Stabat Mater 310; Julia Kristeva in Conversation with Rosalind Coward 333; New Maladies of the Soul 351; Women's Time 351; Interview with Elaine Hoffman Baruch on Feminism inthe United States and France 371; Black Sun 383; Illustrations of Feminine Depression 383; Hannah Arendt 399; Female Genius: General Introduction 399; PART 6 Revolt and Imagination 409; The Sense and Non-sense of Revolt 413; What Revolt Today? 413; Intimate Revolt 435; The Future of Revolt 435; Revolt Today 436
Elements for Research 446Bibliography 451; Index 455;
