Powers of Horror by Julia Kristeva
Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she analyzes the nature of attitudes toward repulsive subjects and examines the function of these topics in the writings of Celine, Proust, Joyce, and other authors.-
Strangers to Ourselves
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Prison Notebooks
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The Field of Cultural Production
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Difference and Repetition
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Food
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Negotiations, 1972-1990
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The Portable Kristeva
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Regimes of Historicity
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Notes to Literature
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New Maladies of the Soul
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How to Live Together
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Entre Nous
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What Is Philosophy?
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Melanie Klein
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This Incredible Need to Believe
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Colette
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Writings on Psychoanalysis
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Hannah Arendt
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Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
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Nihilism and Emancipation
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Realms of Memory
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Assassins of Memory
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Julia Kristeva Interviews
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Subaltern Social Groups
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Language: The Unknown
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The Jean Baudrillard Reader
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The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940-1945
Dazzling* SubStance *
Julia Kristeva’s Powers of Horror, which theorizes the notion of the ‘abject’ in a series of blisteringly insightful analyses, is as relevant, as necessary, and as courageous today as it seemed in 1984. -- Peter Connor, Barnard College
Critics who seek an alternative to sexist and, in general, imperialist practices in psychoanalytic writing will want to read [this book]. * Discourse *
Julia Kristeva’s Powers of Horror, which theorizes the notion of the ‘abject’ in a series of blisteringly insightful analyses, is as relevant, as necessary, and as courageous today as it seemed in 1984. -- Peter Connor, Barnard College
Critics who seek an alternative to sexist and, in general, imperialist practices in psychoanalytic writing will want to read [this book]. * Discourse *
Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 “for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature.”
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| ISBN 13 | 9780231214575 |
| ISBN 10 | 023121457X |
| Title | Powers of Horror |
| Author | Julia Kristeva |
| Series | European Perspectives: A Series In Social Thought And Cultural Criticism |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press |
| Year published | 2024-02-13 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
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