Passions of our time
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Passions of our time
(European perspectives)
Columbia University Press, c2018
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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 of her capacious intellect, her gifts as a stylist, and the profound contribution of her thought to the challenges of the present.
The collection begins with а vivid recollection of celebrating, as a child in Bulgaria, Alphabet Day, the holiday honoring the Cyrillic letters, which proceeds outward into a contemplation of the writer as translator. Kristeva considers literature with Barthes, freedom through Rousseau, Teresa of Avila and mystical experience, Simone de Beauvoir’s dream life, and Antigone and the psychic life of women. A group of essays drawing on her psychoanalytic work delve into Freud, Lacan, maternal eroticism, and the continued importance of psychoanalysis today. In a series of striking investigations, she thinks through disability and normativity, monotheism and secularization, the need to believe and the desire to know. Calling for the courage to renew and reinvent humanism, she outlines the principles of a stance founded on the importance of respecting human life. Finally, Kristeva discusses French culture and diversity, rethinking universalism and interrogating the potential for Islam and psychoanalysis to meet, and pays homage to Beauvoir by rephrasing her dictum into the provocative “One is born woman, but I become one.”
Table of Contents
- Foreword, by Lawrence D. Kritzman Acknowledgments I. Singular Liberties 1. My Alphabet
- or, How I Am a Letter 2. Reliance: What Is Loving for a Mother? 3. How to Speak to Literature with Roland Barthes 4. Emile Benveniste, a Linguist Who Neither Says nor Hides, but Signifies II. Psychoanalysis 5. Freud, the Heart of the Matter 6. The Contemporary Contribution of Psychoanalysis 7. A Father Is Being Beaten to Death 8. Maternal Eroticism 9. Speaking in Psychoanalysis: From Symbols to Flesh and Back Again 10. Affect, That “Intense Depth of Words” 11. The Lacan Event III. Women 12. Antigone, Limit and Horizon 13. The Passion According to Teresa of Avila 14. Beauvoir Dreams IV. Humanism 15. A Felicity Named Rousseau 16. Speech, That Experience 17. Disability Revised: The Tragic and Chance 18. From “Critical Modernity” to “Analytical Modernity” 19. In Jerusalem: Monotheisms and Secularization and the Need to Believe 20. Dare Humanism 21. Ten Principles for Twenty-First-Century Humanism 22. On the Sanctity of Human Life V. France, Europe, China 23. Moses, Freud, and China 24. Diversity Is My Motto 25. The French Cultural Message VI. Positions 26. The Universal in the Singular 27. Can One Be a Muslim Woman and a Shrink? 28. One Is Born Woman, but I Become One Notes Index
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