Julia Kristeva
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.”
Hatred and Forgiveness
Julia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) through psychoanalysis and text, exploring worlds, women, religion, portraits, and the... (more)
This Incredible Need to Believe
"Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize, without being afraid of 'frightening' either the faithful or the agnostics,... (more)
The Severed Head: Capital Visions
Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present. Surveying... (more)
The Enchanted Clock: A Novel
In the Palace of Versailles there is a fabulous golden clock, made for Louis XV by the king's engineer, Claude-Simeon Passemant. The astronomical clock shows the phases of the moon and the movements... (more)
The Feminine and the Sacred
Two of France's leading thinkers investigate stories of African rites, Catholic saints and psychological case studies in an overarching exploration of how women throughout the world cope with forces... (more)
Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia
Addresses the subject of melancholia in the context of art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, as well as psychoanalysis. (more)
Strangers to Ourselves
Explores the notion of the 'stranger' - the foreigner, outsider, or alien in a country and society not their own - as well as the notion of strangeness within the self.
New maladies of the soul
In this major study, the author addresses the need for new psychoanalytical models to cope with a moral crisis resulting from a breakdown of values, a loss of ideology and deteriorating beliefs. She... (more)
Possessions
This sequal to the celebrated novel 'The Old Man and the Wolves' returns to the corrupt, colourful seaside resort of Santa Varvara, where the boundaries between east and west, civilization and... (more)
The old man and the wolves
194 1994
The sense and non-sense of revolt: The powers and limits of psychoanalysis
Linguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist Julia Kristeva explores one aspect of 20th-century culture - rebellion - in this text. She illustrates the advances and impasses of rebel culture through... (more)
Hannah Arendt
Twenty-five years after her death, we are still coming to terms with the controversial figure of Hannah Arendt. Interlacing the life and work of this 20th century philosopher, Julia Kristeva provides... (more)
The Portable Kristeva
Julia Kristeva is a linguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist. This text provides a representative selection of her writings since the mid 1970s. (more)
Melanie Klein
New in paperback. Kristeva tells the remarkable story of Klein's life: an unhappy wife and mother who underwent analysis, and -without a medical or other advanced degree -became an analyst herself at... (more)
This Incredible Need to Believe
"Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize, without being afraid of frightening either the faithful or the agnostics,... (more)
New Maladies of the Soul
"These days, who still has a soul?" asks Julia Kristeva in her psychoanalytic exploration, New Maladies of the Soul. Drawing on her many years of experience as a practicing psychoanalyst, Kristeva... (more)
The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis
Linguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist, Julia Kristeva is one of the most influential and prolific thinkers of our time. Her writings have broken new ground in the study of the self, the... (more)