Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death: or Language Haunted by Sex

Author(s) : Julia Kristeva

Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death: or Language Haunted by Sex

Book Details

  • Publisher : Columbia U.P.
  • Published : 2023
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 344
  • Category :
    Culture and Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 98071
  • ISBN 13 : 9780231210515
  • ISBN 10 : 0231210515

Table of Contents

Preface

Part I: The Flood of Language
1. The Condemned Man, the Sacred Malady, and the Sun
2. Dostoyevsky, “Author of My Life”
3. In the Steps of the Liberated Convict
4. Beyond Neurosis
5. The God-Man, the Man-God
6. The Purloined Letter
7. Everything Is Permitted

Part II: A Carnivalesque Theologian
8. The Russian Virus
9. Christocentrism
10. The Pleasures of Evil and Misfortune
11. The National Christ
12. Catholicism, Atheism, Nihilism
13. The Nihilist Seeking God
14. Laughter, Spokesperson for the Obscene
15. “The Novel Is a Poem”

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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