Kristeva, Psychoanalysis and Culture - Subjectivity in Crisis

Zusatztext 'Significantly! Gambaudo does the groundwork by which contemporary presumptions about psychoanalysis and its place in cultural criticism might be rethought.' The Bible & Critical Theory '... there is no doubt Gambaudo's book represents a thorough! scholarly engagement with Kristeva's work! asserting the value of deep psychoanalytic insights into contemporary forms of culture! and the political implications of such insights. It is an important contribution and corrective to readings of Kristeva! but it is also provocative and politically timely in its own right.' Hypatia Informationen zum Autor Sylvie Gambaudo is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Durham University, UK. Klappentext Examining Julia Kristeva's contention that contemporary Western society is witnessing a crisis of subjectivity due to the failure of the paternal function, Gambaudo places Kristeva's thesis within the context of Freudian psychoanalytic thought and shows how Kristeva defends her position against a cultural climate privileging scientific and cognitive answers to aesthetic concerns. Zusammenfassung Examining Julia Kristeva’s contention that contemporary Western society is witnessing a crisis of subjectivity due to the failure of the paternal function, Gambaudo places Kristeva’s thesis within the context of Freudian psychoanalytic thought and shows how Kristeva defends her position against a cultural climate privileging scientific and cognitive answers to aesthetic concerns. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; Kristeva, psychoanalysis and culture: an overview; The genesis of the subject: the paternal function; The failure of the paternal function; Reassignment of the paternal function to the maternal; The maternal; Narcissism; Narcissus; Narcissistic society; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Sylvie Gambaudo
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.06.2007
• EAN: 9780754655619
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-5561-9
• No. of pages: 204
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy; Ashgate New Critical Thinking; Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Feminism and feminist theory, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis