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Informationen zum Autor 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.” Klappentext -- Choice Zusammenfassung Her analysis deals with the role of narcissism and idealization in the formation of a love object. She accounts for the role of the death drive by coining the term "love/hate." Inhaltsverzeichnis Translator's NoteIn Praise of Love I.Freud and Love: Treatment and its DiscontentsII.Manic Eros! Sublime Eros: On Male SexualityA Holy Madness: She and HeIII.Narcissus: The New InsanityOur Faith: The SeemingIV.God is LoveEgo Affectus Est. Bernard of Clairvaux: Affetc! Desire! LoveRatio Diligendi! or the Triumph of One's Own. Thomas Aquinas: Natural Love and Love of SelfV.Don Juan or Loving to be Able toRomeo and Juliet: Love-Hatred in the CoupleStabat MaterVI.Throes of Love: The Field of the MetahporThe Troubadours: From "Great Courtly Romance" to Allegorical NarrativeA Pure Silence: The Perfection of Jeanne GuyonBaudelaire! or Infinity! Perfume! and PunkStendhal and the Politics of the Gaze: An Egotist's LoveBataille and the Sun! or the Guilty TextExtraterrestrials Suffering for Want of Love Notes
