‘Makes an excellent introduction to Kristeva in its enthusiasm and generosity ... lucid and well-conceived.’ TLS
Julia Kristeva’s most remarkable contribution to modern thought has been her revelation of how pre-verbal experience - poetic, infantile, maternal and spiritual, or simply the experience of suffering - enters language through the processes of literature, art and psychoanalysis.
Anne-Marie Smith’s concise introductory study examines Kristeva in the light of her contemporary activity as writer, teacher and psychoanalyst. Tracing the evolution of Kristeva’s thinking over the last thirty years she draws attention to its conceptual coherence and value as a work-in-progress of cultural critique.
Smith provides close readings of the original texts, new translations and first-hand accounts of Kristeva’s lectures. Kristeva’s influence in Anglo-American thought is set against her place in the French intellectual tradition. She emphasizes Kristeva’s involvement in public cultural activity and personal commitment to psychoanalytic practice as well as her insistent interrogation of the place of women and of foreignness in social structures.
Julia Kristeva’s most remarkable contribution to modern thought has been her revelation of how pre-verbal experience - poetic, infantile, maternal and spiritual, or simply the experience of suffering - enters language through the processes of literature, art and psychoanalysis.
Anne-Marie Smith’s concise introductory study examines Kristeva in the light of her contemporary activity as writer, teacher and psychoanalyst. Tracing the evolution of Kristeva’s thinking over the last thirty years she draws attention to its conceptual coherence and value as a work-in-progress of cultural critique.
Smith provides close readings of the original texts, new translations and first-hand accounts of Kristeva’s lectures. Kristeva’s influence in Anglo-American thought is set against her place in the French intellectual tradition. She emphasizes Kristeva’s involvement in public cultural activity and personal commitment to psychoanalytic practice as well as her insistent interrogation of the place of women and of foreignness in social structures.
Anne-Marie Smith teaches literary translation at the Université de Paris VIII.
Introduction
1. The semiotic and the symbolic
2. The abject, the maternal, melancholy
3. Time, transference, literary experience
4. Foreignness, femininity, sacrifice
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
1. The semiotic and the symbolic
2. The abject, the maternal, melancholy
3. Time, transference, literary experience
4. Foreignness, femininity, sacrifice
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Published by Pluto Press in Jul 1998
Paperback ISBN: 9780745310572
135mm x 215mm