Julia Kristeva

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