Julia Kristeva: 26 books

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...

"We found so much to say, to share, to learn.... For it wasn't just the Marquis de Sade profile and the sporty thighs-and-calves that seduced me. It was even more, perhaps, or certainly just as much, the speed at which you used to read, and still do."—Julia Kristeva "We're...

«Ribellandosi al suo milieu e alla sua educazione, analizzando la condizione imposta alle donne nel corso della storia, Simone de Beauvoir, per la prima volta, e con chiarezza analitica e passione politica, ha dimostrato che non c’è pensiero nel senso forte del termine se non in un dialogo tra...

As a linguist, Julia Kristeva has pioneered a revolutionary theory of the sign in its relation to social and political emancipation; as a practicing psychoanalyst, she has produced work on the nature of the human subject and sexuality, and on the "new maladies" of today's neurotic. The Portable...

"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...

Linguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist, Julia Kristeva is one of the most influential and prolific thinkers of our time. Her writings have broken new ground in the study of the self, the mind, and the ways in which we communicate through language. Her work is unique in that it skillfully brings...

Mixing fiction, history, psychoanalysis, and personal fantasy, Teresa, My Love turns a past world into a modern marvel, following Sylvia Leclercq, a French psychoanalyst, academic, and incurable insomniac, as she falls for the sixteenth-century Saint Teresa of Avila and becomes consumed with charting...

«Siamo una coppia formata da due stranieri. La coppia che accetta la libertà di due estraneità può divenire un vero e proprio campo di battaglia. Da qui il bisogno di armonizzare. La fedeltà è una sorta di armonizzazione dell’estraneità. Se permettete che l’altro sia straniero quanto lo...

Julia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) through psychoanalysis and text, exploring worlds, women, religion, portraits, and the act of writing. Her inquiry spans themes, topics, and figures central to her writing, and her paths...

Julia Kristeva is a true polymath, an intellectual of astonishingly wide range whose erudition and insight have been brought to bear on psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique. Passions of Our Time showcases recent essays of Kristeva’s that demonstrate the scope...

Born in 1515, Teresa of Avila survived the Spanish Inquisition and was a key reformer of the Carmelite Order. Her experience of ecstasy, which she intimately described in her writings, released her from her body and led to a complete realization of her consciousness, a state Julia Kristeva explores...

Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present. Surveying paintings, sculptures, and drawings, Julia Kristeva turns her famed critical eye to a study of the head...

Pendant plus d’un an, Julia Kristeva et Jean Vanier ont échangé sous forme de lettres sur leur expérience respective. Pourquoi le handicap fait-il si peur aux gens dits « normaux » ? En quoi l’irréductible différence des handicapés moteurs et surtout mentaux suscite-t-elle recul, parfois...

Philippe Sollers : « Je n’ai jamais songé à me marier. Sauf une fois. Et une fois pour toutes. Cette aventure singulière, et très passionnée, méritait, je crois, d’être racontée en détail. »   Julia Kristeva : « Nous sommes un couple formé de deux étrangers. Notre...