Hatred and Forgiveness

Informationen zum Autor Julia Kristeva is professor of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII and author of many acclaimed works and novels, including This Incredible Need to Believe, Murder in Byzantium, Strangers to Ourselves, New Maladies of the Soul, Time and Sense, Hannah Arendt, and Melanie Klein. She is the recipient of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought and the Holberg International Memorial Prize. Klappentext Dividing her essays into worlds, women, psychoanalysis, religion, portraits, and writing, Julia Kristeva explores the phenomenon of hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process the emotion) through a number of key texts and contexts. Her inquiry spans the themes, topics, and figures that have been central to her writing over the past three decades, and her paths of discovery advance the theoretical innovations that are so characteristic of her thought. Kristeva rearticulates and extends her analysis of language, abjection, idealization, female sexuality, love, and forgiveness. She examines the "maladies of the soul," utilizing examples from her practice and the ailments of her patients (fatigue, irritability, and general malaise), and she sources the Bible and texts by Marguerite Duras, St. Teresa of Avila, Roland Barthes, Simone de Beauvoir, and Georgia O'Keefe.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Kristeva
• Assisted by: Jeanine Herman (Translation), Herman Jeanine (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.12.2010
• EAN: 9780231143240
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14324-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 236 mm x 28 mm
• Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; RELIGION / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, Psychology: emotions, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction; women's studies