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1. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (European Perspectives Series) by Julia Kristeva | |
Paperback: 219
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(1982-04-15)
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abject waste of time
Are You Subject to Abjection?
Difficult but worthwhile, ohmy!
Uncanny...astonishing... |
2. The Samurai by Julia Kristeva | |
Hardcover: 341
Pages
(1992-04-15)
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3. This Incredible Need to Believe (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) by Julia Kristeva | |
Hardcover: 136
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(2009-09-25)
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Editorial Review Product Description "Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize, without being afraid of 'frightening' either the faithful or the agnostics, that the history of Christianity prepared the world for humanism." So writes Julia Kristeva in this provocative work, which skillfully upends our entrenched ideas about religion, belief, and the thought and work of a renowned psychoanalyst and critic. With dialogue and essay, Kristeva analyzes our "incredible need to believe"& mdash;the inexorable push toward faith that, for Kristeva, lies at the heart of the psyche and the history of society. Examining the lives, theories, and convictions of Saint Teresa of Avila, Sigmund Freud, Donald Winnicott, Hannah Arendt, and other individuals, she investigates the intersection between the desire for God and the shadowy zone in which belief resides. Kristeva suggests that human beings are formed by their need to believe, beginning with our first attempts at speech and following through to our adolescent search for identity and meaning. Kristeva then applies her insight to contemporary religious clashes and the plight of immigrant populations, especially those of Islamic origin. Even if we no longer have faith in God, Kristeva argues, we must believe in human destiny and creative possibility. Reclaiming Christianity's openness to self-questioning and the search for knowledge, Kristeva urges a "new kind of politics," one that restores the integrity of the human community. |
4. Murder in Byzantium: A Novel by Julia Kristeva | |
Paperback: 264
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(2008-03-17)
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Editorial Review Product Description In this absorbing, suspenseful novel Julia Kristeva combines social satire, medieval history, philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, and autobiography within a gruesome murder mystery.Murder in Byzantium deftly moves from eleventh-century Europe, wracked by the turbulence of the First Crusade, to the sun-dappled, cultural wasteland of present-day Santa Varvara, threatened by religious cults, gangs, and a serial killer on the loose. This killer is murdering members of a dubious religious sect, the New Pantheon, and leaving a mysterious figure eight drawn on their corpses. Meanwhile, Sebastian Chrest-Jones, a noted professor of human migrations, clandestinely writing a novel about the Byzantine princess-historian Anna Comnena, disappears on a quest to learn more about an ancestor who roamed across Europe to Byzantium during the First Crusade. Kristeva's recurring characters, detective Northrop Rilsky and the French journalist Stephanie Delacour, step in and desperately try to piece together the two-part mystery in the midst of their unexpected love affair. In the tradition of Umberto Eco, Susan Sontag, and Ian McEwan, Kristeva skillfully weaves philosophical and critical ideas into her fiction. Peering into the mores, obsessions, and excesses of contemporary society, Kristeva offers an engrossing portrait of Santa Varvara, a paradoxical place of sunshine and pollution where skeletons lurk in the closets of politicians and oil company executives. Her descriptions of the First Crusade and the Byzantine Empire vividly evoke a distant past while speaking to such contemporary concerns as immigration, fundamentalism, terrorism, and the East-West divide. Murder in Byzantium is also the only work in which Kristeva explores her Bulgarian roots. In the midst of this rich, multilayered historical novel, Kristeva also presents three stunning, closely observed, and interlocking portraits of characters struggling with loss and emptiness in their personal histories and day-to-day lives. Customer Reviews (3)
Read the description of the novel carefully
11th Century Byzantium
Misleading |
5. The Old Man and the Wolves: A Novel by Julia Kristeva | |
Hardcover: 183
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(1994-04-15)
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6. Black Sun by Julia Kristeva | |
Paperback: 300
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(1992-10-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description InBlack 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 nearly unattainable goal and explains how the love of a lost identity of attachment lies at the very core of depression's dark heart. In her discussion she analyzes Holbein's controversial 1522 painting "The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb," and has revealing comments on the works of Marguerite Duras, Dostoyevsky and Nerval.Black Sun takes the view that depression is a discourse with a language to be learned, rather than strictly a pathology to be treated. Customer Reviews (3)
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A different approach to depression. A "must read." The process of all modalities of psychotherapy involves communication, a dialogue between the therapist and the client. This process draws the client out and is an essential factor in the care of the client. Kristeva emphasizes the "antidepressant qualities of psychoanalysis."While acknowledging the utility of antidepressants in psychotherapy, the function of the linguistic component seeks to emphasize the meaning of the "inconsolable loss" experienced by the depressed patient.To symbolically illustrate the sensation of depression, Kristeva uses great sensativity in drawing on the poetry of Gerard de Nerval, the novels of Doestoyevsky, and Hans Holbein's picture "Dead Christ." "Dark Sun" had meaning to me because of its emphasis on the *individual* and how he or she feels. We must always emphasize the dignity of the individual in dealing with the depressed.
An energetic and exhaustive study of the blues. |
7. Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art by Julia Kristeva | |
Paperback: 305
Pages
(1980-04-15)
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Beyond Lacan and Freud: Language and Psychoanalysis The interest in such theories of language, semiotics, post-structuralism and psychoanalysis is slim in the English speaking world, and this is unfortunate. Not enough scholars of language look to Lacan and Kristeva, but they should. The text is difficult, and even more so in translation, but it is worth struggling through. However, for the reader with little background in the subject matter, penetrating Kristeva's work may be almost impossible without guidance. This book is subtitled 'a semiotic approach to literature and art'. What Kristeva does is apply her theories to the area of aesthetics, especially her specialty area of the novel. Unfortunately, her studies are naturally based on the French novel (19th century), so readers unfamiliar with novellists such as Mallarme might have a problem following this aspect of her work. ... Read more |
8. Tales of Love (European Perspectives) by Julia Kristeva | |
Paperback: 414
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(1987-04-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description Her 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." Customer Reviews (2)
very sweet
An Interesting Love Theory |
9. Julia Kristeva (Routledge Critical Thinkers) by Noelle McAfee | |
Paperback: 168
Pages
(2003-12-09)
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Extremely Helpful |
10. Revolution in Poetic Language (European Perspectives Series) by Julia Kristeva | |
Paperback: 271
Pages
(1984-04-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description The linking of psychosomatic to literary and literary to a larger political horizon raises the question of conservative premises to linguistic, pyschoanalystic, philisophical, and literary theories and criticisms of such. Customer Reviews (4)
Theory as a unleashed adventure
I Have to Raise the Rating!!!
Huge - An Important and Rewarding Book
Empty waffle |
11. Melanie Klein (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) by Julia Kristeva | |
Paperback: 304
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(2004-12-31)
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Editorial Review Product Description To the renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist Julia Kristeva, Melanie Klein (1882--1960) was the most original innovator, male or female, in the psychoanalytic arena. Klein pioneered psychoanalytic practice with children and made major contributions to our understanding of both psychosis and autism. Along the way, she successfully introduced a new approach to the theory of the unconscious without abandoning the principles set forth by Freud. In her first biography of a fellow psychoanalyst, the prolific Kristeva considers Klein's life and intellectual development, weaving a narrative that covers the history of psychoanalysis and illuminates Kristeva's own life and work. Kristeva tells the remarkable story of Klein's life: an unhappy wife and mother who underwent analysis, and -- without a medical or other advanced degree -- became an analyst herself at the age of 40. In examining her work, Kristeva proposes that Klein's "break" with Freud was really an attempt to complete his theory of the unconscious. Kristeva addresses Klein's numerous critics, and, in doing so, bridges the wide gulf between the clinical and theoretical worlds of psychoanalysis. Klein is celebrated here as the first person to see the mother as the source of not only creativity, but of thought itself, and the first to consider the place of matricide in psychic development. As such, Klein is a seminal figure in the evolution of the provocative ideas about motherhood and the psyche for which Kristeva is most famous. Klein is thus, in a sense, a mother to Kristeva, making this book an account of the development of Kristeva's own thought as well as Klein's. |
12. JULIA KRISTEVA: ART, LOVE, MELANCHOLY, PHILOSOPHY, SEMIOTICS AND PSYCHOANALYSIS (Media, Feminism, Cultural Studies) by Kelly Ives | |
Hardcover: 172
Pages
(2010-02-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Julia Kristeva was born in Bulgaria in 1941. Educated in part by French nuns, she was involved early on in her life with Communist Party youth organizations and children’s groups. Since moving to Paris in the 1960s, Kristeva has risen in stature in intellectual circles so that she is now regarded as one of the most important thinkers of the contemporary era. EXTRACT FROM CHAPTER 7: “JULIA KRISTEVA’S THEORY OF LOVE” For Julia Kristeva, love embodies both the semiotic and the symbolic, both knowledge and joy (pace Baruch de Spinoza), both language and affect. Kristeva has written of love in a way that is not facile, demeaning, banal, stereotypical, sexist or pornographic. Her pronouncements on love are quite different from those in the ‘classic’ texts of love, such as Ovid’s poems, or the mediæval Art of Love, or Elizabethan sonnet sequences, or Stendhal’s De l’Amour, or Denis de Rougement’s L’Amour et l’occident (Love in the Western World). When Kristeva writes – Vertigo of identity, vertigo of words: love, of the individual, is that sudden revelation, that irremediable cataclysm, of which one speaks only after the fact. Under its sway, one does not speak of. (“In Praise of Love”) – it seems right and thankfully free of the usual embarrassment of sexism that marks most writing about love. Julia Kristeva evokes the wildness of love, the loss of self and the eruption of desire, without sounding idiotic. When Kristeva writes that in love one assumes the right to be extraordinary, it is a great description of being in love. Kristeva is right to describe love as the inrush of total subjectivity, an infinity of subjectivity. In Kristeva’s psycho-poetic reading, love’s the inrush of the totally extraordinary, but at the expense of commonsense (as lovers learn, painfully): Love is the time and space in which “I” assumes the right to be extraordinary. Sovereign yet not individual. Divisible, lost, annihilated; but also, and through imaginary fusion with the loved one, equal to the infinite space of superhuman psychism. Paranoid? I am, in love, at the zenith of subjectivity. (5) How great this first chapter of Histoires d’amour is, as great as Stendhal’s De l’Amour or Sigmund Freud’s The Ego and the Id, or Jacques Lacan’s Écrits. Kristeva describes love as a transgressive, sometimes violent wildness (D.H. Lawrence’s term ‘infinite sensual violence’ is apposite here). ‘Vertigo of identity, vertigo of words’ – what a good turn of phrase. Vertigo – the falling in love, the fear of falling, the helplessness, the swoon into the abyss. Going over the edge. Moving beyond the boundaries. Transgression. KELLY IVES has written widely on feminism, philosophy and art. Her previous books include Cixous, Irigaray, Kristeva: The Jouissance of French Feminism, Luce Irigaray and Hélène Cixous. Customer Reviews (1)
LOVE AND ART AND MORE, OH MUCH MORE |
13. Intimate Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) by Julia Kristeva | |
Paperback: 92
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(2002-08)
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Editorial Review Product Description A thorough examination of the manner in which three of the most unsettling modern writers -- Aragon, Sartre, and Barthes -- affirm their personal rebellion followed by Kristeva's own ideas on the future of rebellion. Customer Reviews (1)
Intellectual exile therapy: reading |
14. The Kristeva Reader by Julia Kristeva | |
Paperback: 328
Pages
(1986-04-15)
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Changed my life
A deep look into language, religion and...
Celebrating Language and Thought |
15. Strangers to Ourselves by Julia Kristeva | |
Paperback: 230
Pages
(1994-08-15)
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A difficult read |
16. Possessions by Julia Kristeva | |
Hardcover: 256
Pages
(1998-04-15)
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17. Hatred and Forgiveness (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) by Julia Kristeva | |
Hardcover: 336
Pages
(2010-12-10)
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18. New Maladies of the Soul by Julia Kristeva | |
Paperback: 242
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(1997-04-15)
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Julia Kristeva's best work on Psychoanalysis |
19. The Portable Kristeva by Julia Kristeva, Kelly Oliver | |
Paperback: 464
Pages
(1997-04-15)
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20. The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt by Julia Kristeva | |
Paperback: 288
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(2001-12-15)
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