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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786442903321

Autore

Lechte John

Titolo

Julia Kristeva / / John Lechte

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-19925-X

0-203-08559-0

1-283-84613-6

1-136-19926-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions : Feminist theory

Disciplina

801.95092

Soggetti

Criticism - France - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1990.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

JULIA KRISTEVA; Copyright; Julia Kristeva; Copyright; Contents; Editor's foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Julia Kristeva's intellectual trajectory; The focus of reading; Part One Context and influences; 1 '""Too French . . .""'? Setting the intellectual scene; Frenchness; Thought and its concerns in France; A paradise for intellectuals?; The other side of reality and the limits of writing; The missed (Anglo-Franco) encounter; 2 The effect of the unconscious; Language and the unconscious system; The baroque; The unconscious as a purloined letter; The psychoanalytic triangle

The unconscious as symbolicSpeaking 'about' the unconscious; The letter as destiny (death) - and poetry; Psychoanalysing Hamlet; Art and subjectivity; Joyce and the limits of signification; The unsymbolizable; His Majesty's blindness; 3 Towards the semiotic; Roland Barthes; Emile Benveniste; Georges Bataille; Anagrams; Exile, foreigner, and cosmopolitan; Part Two A reading of Kristeva's Ĺ“uvre; 4 Writing, dialogue, infinity; Writing; Dialogue; The infinite; 5 The semiotic in poetic language and history; Painting rhythm; The 'semiotic' and the 'symbolic'; The semiotic disposition

Poetic language in history and society6 Horror, love, melancholy; Horror; Love; Melancholy; Part Three Conclusion; 7 The importance of Kristeva; Feminism: for and against; From modernism to



postmodernism?; The power of the analyst?; Art and analysis; Select bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A leading literary critic and psychoanalyst, Julia Kristeva is one of the most significant French thinkers writing today. In this up-to-date survey of her work, John Lechte outlines fully and systematically her intellectual development. He traces it from her work on Bakhtin and the logic of poetic language in the 1960s, through her influential theories of the 'symbolic' and the 'semiotic' in the 1970s, to her analyses of horror, love, melancholy and cosmopolitanism in the 1980s. He provides an insight into the intellectual and historical context which gave rise to Kristeva's thought, showin