Abjection, Melancholia, and Love: The Work of Julia Kristeva

Abjection, Melancholia, and Love: The Work of Julia Kristeva
ISBN-10
0415522935
ISBN-13
9780415522939
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
223
Language
English
Published
2012
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
John Fletcher, Andrew Benjamin

Description

Julia Kristeva's blend of the literary with the psychoanalytic places her work central to current thinking, from semiotics and critical theory to feminism and psychoanalysis. Her profound understanding of the dynamics of intention and creativity mark her out as one of the leading theoreticians of desire. Each essay in this volume offers new insight into the many aspects that make up Kristeva's thought, ranging from her analyses of sexual difference, female temporality and the perceptions of the body to the mental states of abjection and melancholia, and their representation in painting and literature.

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