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Author:   Julia Kristeva ,  Leon Roudiez
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
ISBN:  

9780231219006

ISBN 10:   0231219008
Pages:   414
Publication Date:   04 March 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   French

Table of Contents

Translator’s Note In Praise of Love Part I Freud and Love: Treatment and Its Discontents Part II Manic Eros, Sublime Eros: On Male Sexuality A Holy Madness: She and He Part III Narcissus: The New Insanity Our Faith: The Seeming Part IV God Is Love Ego Affectus Est. Bernard of Clairvaux: Affect, Desire, Love Ratio Diligendi, or the Triumph of One’s Own. Thomas Aquinas: Natural Love and Love of Self Part V Don Juan, or Loving to Be Able To Romeo and Juliet: Love-Hatred in the Couple Stabat Mater Part VI Throes of Love: The Field of the Metaphor The Troubadours: From “Great Courtly Romance” to Allegorical Narrative A Pure Silence: The Perfection of Jeanne Guyon Baudelaire, or Infinity, Perfume, and Punk Stendhal and the Politics of the Gaze: An Egotist’s Love Bataille and the Sun, or the Guilty Text Extraterrestrials Suffering for Want of Love Notes Index

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The analytical work is punctuated throughout by the personal, so that intelligently moving thoughts on motherhood aptly intervene. Kristeva makes a very strong case for the claim that the goal of analysis is not a truth in but a dynamic rebirth of the analysand via language. * Choice *

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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.” Leon S. Roudiez (1917–2004) was professor emeritus and former head of the French Department at Columbia University.

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