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Kristeva

ISBN: 978-0-7456-3896-6
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224 pages
January 2011, Polity
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Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Thresholds
Chapter 1: Kristeva's Theory of Meaning and Subjectivity
§ The Semiotic and the Symbolic, § From the Symbolic to the Semiotic - The Phenomenological Theory of Meaning, § From the Semiotic to the Symbolic - The Psychoanalytic Theory of Meaning, § The Dialectic of Semiotic and Symbolic
Chapter 2: Kristeva's Psychoanalytic - Abjection, Love, and Loss
§ Kristeva's Theory of Subjective Diachrony, § Powers of Horror, § Tales of Love, § Black Sun, § Abjection, Love, and Loss in the Wake of Symbolic Collapse
Chapter 3: The Public Stakes of Intimacy
§ What Is Intimacy? § Intimacy and the Event of Natality, § Freud's Involution of Intimacy, § Abjection Ð Intimate Suffering/ Public Horror, § "Ravaged Intimacy" and the Event of Death," § What's Love Got to Do with It?
Chapter 4: Intimate Revolt and the Society of the Spectacle
§ The Spectacular Horizon of Kristeva's Concept of Revolt, § The Scandal of Timelessness - Kristeva's Phenomenological-Psychoanalytic Concept of Time, § In Search of an Experience - Proustian Revolt, § Sex and Time: The Interminable Revolt of Female Genius
Chapter 5: So Many Oedipuses, So Little Time
§ Reviving Oedipus, § Oedipus is dead, and we have killed him, § The Irony of Antigone, pariah of the sacred, § Anti-Oedipus
Chapter 6: Kristeva's Novelistic Approach to Social and Political Life
§ Homo Spectator, § Detective Fiction: Kristeva's Proper, Specular Inquiry, § Inspector Freud; Dr. Delacour, § My Own Private Byzantium; or, the Odd Future Anterior of Kristeva's Hero
Conclusion: Politics at the Margin - Kristeva's Wager on the Future of Revolt
Further reading
Notes
References
Index

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