Abjection, Melancholia and Love - The Work of Julia Kristeva

Julia Kristeva's blend of the literary with the psychoanalytic places her work central to current thinking, from semiotics and critical theory to feminism and psychoanalysis. Her profound understanding of the dynamics of intention and creativity mark her out as one of the leading theoreticians of desire.
Each essay in this volume offers new insight into the many aspects that make up Kristeva's thought, ranging from her analyses of sexual difference, female temporality and the perceptions of the body to the mental states of abjection and melancholia, and their representation in painting and literature.

List of contents

Introduction 1. The Adolescent Novel 2. Art, Love and Melancholy in the Work of Julia Kristeva 3. The An-Arche of Psychotherapy 4. The Ethics of Sexual Difference 5. Female Temporality and the Future of Feminism 6. The Body of Signification 7. Geometry and Abjection 8. Primary Narcissism and the Giving of Figure: Kristeva with Hertz and de Man 9. Julia Kristeva: Theorizing the Avant-Garde? 10. Virginia Woolf: ‘Seen from a Foreign Land’ 11. Eliot’s Abjection

About the author

John Fletcher (University of Warwick, UK),  Andrew Benjamin (Monash University, Victoria, Australia)

Product details

• Authors: John Benjamin Fletcher
• Assisted by: Andrew Benjamin (Editor), John Fletcher (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.03.2014
• EAN: 9780415752299
• ISBN: 978-0-415-75229-9
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; History, Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Humanities, Feminism & feminist theory, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000