Julia Kristeva is a linguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist. This text provides a representative selection of her writings since the mid 1970s. The essays are arranged around major Kristevan themes: The subject in Signifying Practice; Psychoanalysis of Love; Individual and National Identity; and Maternity, Feminism and Female Sexuality. They reflect her most salient contribution to the fields of philosophy, literary and cultural theory, linguistics, psychoanalytic theory and feminiist theory.
Julia Kristeva is a linguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist. This text provides a representative selection of her writings since the mid 1970s. The essays are arranged around major Kristevan themes: The subject in Signifying Practice; Psychoanalysis of Love; Individual and National Identity; and Maternity, Feminism and Female Sexuality. They reflect her most salient contribution to the fields of philosophy, literary and cultural theory, linguistics, psychoanalytic theory and feminiist theory.