Julia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to
subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) through
psychoanalysis and text, exploring worlds, women, religion,
portraits, and the act of writing. Her inquiry spans themes,
topics, and figures central to her writing, and her paths of
discovery advance the theoretical innovations that are so
characteristic of her thought.
Kristeva rearticulates and extends her analysis of language,
abjection, idealization, female sexuality, love, and forgiveness.
She examines the "maladies of the soul," utilizing examples from
her practice and the ailments of her patients, such as fatigue,
irritability, and general malaise. She sources the Bible and texts
by Marguerite Duras, St. Teresa of Avila, Roland Barthes, Simone de
Beauvoir, and Georgia O'Keefe. Balancing political calamity and
individual pathology, she addresses internal and external
catastrophes and global and personal injuries, confronting the
nature of depression, obliviousness, fear, and the agony of being
and nothingness.
Throughout Kristeva develops the notion that psychoanalysis is
the key to serenity, with its processes of turning back, looking
back, investigating the self, and refashioning psychical damage
into something useful and beautiful. Constant questioning, Kristeva
contends, is essential to achieving the coming to terms we all seek
at the core of forgiveness.
General
Imprint: |
Columbia University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism |
Release date: |
April 2012 |
First published: |
April 2012 |
Authors: |
Julia Kristeva
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Translators: |
Jeanine Herman
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Dimensions: |
229 x 153 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
341 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-231-14325-7 |
Languages: |
English
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Subtitles: |
French
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Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Psychology >
General
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LSN: |
0-231-14325-7 |
Barcode: |
9780231143257 |
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