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Book Synopsis
The only fully comprehensive compilation of Kristeva's key writings. The second edition includes 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.
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It has been apparent for some time that Julia Kristeva has inherited the intellectual throne left vacant by the death of Simone de Beauvoir. -- Elaine Showalter [Kristeva's] work is entirely new, accurate, not through scientific puritanism but because it takes up all the space it deals with, fills it precisely, making it necessary for anyone who counts himself out to reveal himself as an opponent or a censor. -- Roland Barthes
Table of Contents
Introduction: Kristeva's Revolutions Part 1: Kristeva's Trajectory: In Her Own Words "My Memory's Hyperbole" (1984) from New York Literary Forum Part 2: The Subject in Signifying Practice Revolution in Poetic Language (1974) Prolegomenon The Semiotic and the Symbolic Negativity: Rejection Desire in Language (1980) From One Identity to an Other (1975) Time and Sense Is Sensation a Form of a Language? (abridged) Freudian Time Part 3: Psychoanalysis of Love: A Counterdepressant Tales of Love (1987) Freud and Love: Treatment and Its Discontents (abridged) Throes of Love: The Field of the Metaphor (abridged) Extraterrestrials Suffering for Want of Love Black Sun (1989) Psychoanalysis-A Counterdepressant New Maladies of the Soul (1993) The Clinic: The Soul and the Image (abridged) In Times Like These, Who Needs Psychoanalysis? Part 4: Individual and National Identity Powers of Horror (1980) Approaching Abjection (abridged) From Filth to Defilement (abridged) Strangers to Ourselves (1989) Toccata and Fugue for the Foreigner Might Not Universality Be... Our Own Foreignness? (abridged) In Practice... Part 5: Maternity, Feminism, and Female Sexuality Desire in Language (1980) The Maternal Body (1975), from "Motherhood According to Bellini" Tales of Love (1987) Stabat Mater (1976) Julia Kristeva in Conversation with Rosalind Coward (1984) New Maladies of the Soul Women's Time (1977) Interview with Elaine Hoffman Baruch on Feminism in the United States and France (1980) Black Sun (1989) Illustrations of Feminine Depression Hannah Arendt (1999) Female Genius: General Introduction Part 6: Revolt and Imagination The Sense and Non-sense of Revolt (1996) What Revolt Today? Intimate Revolt (1998) The Future of Revolt Revolt Today Elements for Research
