Beardsworth Julia Kristeva

Psychoanalysis and Modernity
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8453-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Gender Theory

A comprehensive examination of Kristeva's work from the seventies to the nineties.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beardsworth, Sara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Suffering: A Piece of the Reality that has Come to grief
The Tendential Severance of the Semiotic and Symbolic
Part I. From the Revolutionary Standpoint to the Nihilism Problematic
1. The Early View of Psychoanalysis and Art
Introduction
The Lacanian Background
Revolution in Poetic Language
2. Primary Narcissism
The Appearance of the Nihilism Problematic
Primary Idealization
3. Ab-jection
Introduction
The Phobic Object
"Where Am I?"
4. Primal Loss
Introduction
Intolerance for Loss
The Signifying Failure
Part II. Art and Religion: Kristeva's Minor Histories of Modernity
5. The Powers and Limitations of Religion Introduction
Psychoanalysis and the Sacred
Religious Codifications of Abjection
6. The Kristevan Aesthetic
Introduction
Holbein: "God is dead"
Duras: A New Suffering World
A New Amatory World
Part III. The Social and Political Implications of Kristeva's Thought
7. Ethics and Politics
Introduction
The Ethics of Psychoanalysis
Nations Without Nationalism
8. Kristeva's Feminism
Introduction
"Woman" and "Nature"
Kristeva or Butler?
The Maternal Feminine
Conclusion: Revolt Culture and Exemplary Lives Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sara Beardsworth is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University.