Description
Book SynopsisJulia Kristeva is a theorist and has been acclaimed for her work in linguistics, psychoanalysis, literary and political theory. This is an introduction to her work in English, containing a range of essays from all phases of her career.
Trade Review"Toril Moi, with her usual exegetical lucidity, makes sense for us of the immensely difficult and varied aspects of Julia Kristeva's intellectual project, characterized by Moi as an attempt to 'think the unthinkable'."
London Review of Books "Excellently edited and introduced by Toril Moi." City Limits
Table of ContentsPreface vi
Acknowledgements viii
Introduction 1
I Linguistics, Semiotics, Textuality 23
1 The System and the Speaking Subject 24
2 Word, Dialogue and Novel 34
3 From Symbol to Sign 62
4 Semiotics: A Critical Science and/or a Critique of Science 74
5 Revolution in Poetic Language 89
II Women, Psychoanalysis. Politics 137
6 About Chinese Women 138
7 Stabat Mater 160
8 Women’s Time 187
9 The True-Real 214
10 Freud and Love: Treatment and Its Discontents 238
11 Why the United States? 272
12 A New Type of Intellectual: The Dissident 292
13 Psychoanalysis and the Polis 301
Index 321
