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Black Sun
$22.52
In Black Sun, Julia Kristeva addresses the subject of melancholia, examining this phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, as well as psychoanalysis. She describes the depressive as one who perceives the sense of self as a crucial pursuit and a n..
Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia (European Pe...
$38.96
Looks at the psychological nature of depression and discusses its portrayal in literature and art Author: Kristeva, Julia Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0231067062 ISBN-13: 9780231067065..
Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literat...
$14.49
Desire in Language traces the path of an investigation, extending over a period of ten years, into the semiotics of literature and the arts. But the essays of Julia Kristeva in this volume, though they often deal with literature and art, do not amount to either "literary criticism" or "art criticism..
Intimate Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoan...
$27.79
Julia Kristeva, herself a product of the famous May '68 Paris student uprising, has long been fascinated by the concept of rebellion and revolution. Psychoanalysts believe that rebellion guarantees our independence and creative capacities, but is revolution still possible Confronted with the cultur..
Nations Without Nationalism
$9.13
Kristeva points to Montesquieu's esprit general -- his notion of the social body as a guaranteed hierarchy of private rights -- in this humanistic plea for tolerance and commonality. Author: Kristeva, Julia Publisher: Columbia University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0231081049..
New Maladies of the Soul
$14.64
These days, who still has a soul asks Julia Kristeva in her psychoanalytic exploration, New Maladies of the Soul. Hailed by Peter Brooks in the New York Times as "a critic of great psychoanalytic insight," Kristeva reveals to readers a new kind of patient, symptomatic of an age of political upheava..
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (European ...
$25.96
Powers of Horror is an excellent introduction to an aspect of contemporary French literature which has been allowed to become somewhat neglected in the current emphasis on para-philosophical modes of discourse." Author: Kristeva, Julia Publisher: Columbia University Press Binding: Paperback Language..
Strangers to Ourselves
$11.97
This book is concerned with the notion of the "stranger" -the foreigner, outsider, or alien in a country and society not their own- as well as the notion of strangeness within the self -a person's deep sense of being, as distinct from outside appearance and their conscious idea of self.Kristeva begi..
Tales of Love (European Perspectives S)
$8.74
Product DescriptionHer analysis deals with the role of narcissism and idealization in the formation of a love object. She accounts for the role of the death drive by coining the term "love/hate."ReviewAssuming the voices of psychoanalyst, scholar, and postmodern polimicist, Kristeva discusses both t..
The Kristeva Reader
$14.69
An easily accessible introduction to Kristeva's work in English. The essays have been selected as representative of the three main areas of Kristeva's writing--semiotics, psychoanalysis, and political theory--and are each prefaced by a clear, instructive introduction. For beginners or those familiar..
The Portable Kristeva
$15.57
Julia Kristeva is a linguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist. This text provides a representative selection of her writings since the mid 1970s. The essays are arranged around major Kristevan themes: "The subject in Signifying Practice"; "Psychoanalysis of Love"; "Individual and National Identi..
The Samurai
$10.58
A portrait of Parisian intellectuals of the 1960s as seen through the eyes of Olga, a young Eastern European who comes to Paris to write a literary thesis, and finds herself immediately swept into the world of a group of young leftist thinkers and writers known as the Samurai. Author: Kristeva, Juli..
Time and Sense
$25.58
Not only a meditation on Proust, this is a commentary on how the experience of literature is manifested in time and sensation. Kristeva uses Proust as a starting point to reflect upon broader notions of character, time, sensation, metaphor, and history. Author: Kristeva, Julia Publisher: Columbia Un..