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Julia Kristeva: Psychoanalysis and Modernity

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Sara Beardsworth
2004
Published by: State University of New York Press
Series: SUNY series in Gender Theory
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This is the first systematic overview of Julia Kristeva’s vision and work in relation to philosophical modernity. It provides a clear, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary analysis of her thought on psychoanalysis, art, ethics, politics, and feminism in the secular aftermath of religion. Sara Beardsworth shows that Kristeva’s multiple perspectives explore the powers and limits of different discourses as responses to the historical failures of Western cultures, failures that are undergone and disclosed in psychoanalysis.

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Cover

Title Page

pp. iii

Copyright

pp. iv

CONTENTS

pp. vii-viii

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

pp. ix-x

INTRODUCTION

pp. 1-22

PART I: From the Revolutionary Standpoint to the Nihilism Problematic

CHAPTER 1: The Early View of Psychoanalysis and Art

pp. 25-53

CHAPTER 2: Primary Narcissism

pp. 55-77

CHAPTER 3: Abjection

pp. 79-93

CHAPTER 4: Primal Loss

pp. 95-111

PART II: Religion and Art

CHAPTER 5: The Powers and Limitations of Religion

pp. 115-142

CHAPTER 6: The Kristevan Aesthetic

pp. 143-166

PART III: The Social and Political Implications of Kristeva’s Thought

CHAPTER 7: Ethics and Politics

pp. 169-215

CHAPTER 8: Kristeva’s Feminism

pp. 217-266

CONCLUSION

pp. 267-275

NOTES

pp. 277-286

BIBLIOGRAPHY

pp. 287-294

INDEX

pp. 295-309
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