Linguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist, Julia Kristeva
is one of the most influential and prolific thinkers of our time.
Her writings have broken new ground in the study of the self, the
mind, and the ways in which we communicate through language. Her
work is unique in that it skillfully brings together psychoanalytic
theory and clinical practice, literature, linguistics, and
philosophy.
In her latest book on the powers and limits of psychoanalysis,
Kristeva focuses on an intriguing new dilemma. Freud and
psychoanalysis taught us that rebellion is what guarantees our
independence and our creative abilities. But in our contemporary
"entertainment" culture, is rebellion still a viable option? Is it
still possible to build and embrace a counterculture? For whom --
and against what -- and under what forms?
Kristeva illustrates the advances and impasses of rebel culture
through the experiences of three twentieth-century writers: the
existentialist John Paul Sartre, the surrealist Louis Aragon, and
the theorist Roland Barthes. For Kristeva the rebellions championed
by these figures -- especially the political and seemingly dogmatic
political commitments of Aragon and Sartre -- strike the post-Cold
War reader with a mixture of fascination and rejection. These
theorists, according to Kristeva, are involved in a revolution
against accepted notions of identity -- of one's relation to
others. Kristeva places their accomplishments in the context of
other revolutionary movements in art, literature, and politics. The
book also offers an illuminating discussion of Freud's
groundbreaking work on rebellion, focusing on the symbolic function
of patricide in his "Totem and Taboo" and discussing his often
neglected vision of language, and underscoring its complex
connection to the revolutionary drive.
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