Sara Beardsworth is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University.
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
(24)
Suffering: A Piece of the Reality that has Come to Grief
2
(10)
The Tendential Severance of the Semiotic and Symbolic
12
(13)
Part I. From the Revolutionary Standpoint to the Nihilism Problematic
Chapter 1. The Early View of Psychoanalysis and Art
25
(30)
Introduction
25
(2)
The Lacanian Background
27
(12)
Revolution in Poetic Language
39
(16)
Chapter 2. Primary Narcissism
55
(24)
The Appearance of the Nihilism Problematic
55
(6)
Primary Idealization
61
(18)
Chapter 3. Abjection
79
(16)
Introduction
79
(5)
The Phobic Object
84
(6)
"Where Am I?"
90
(5)
Chapter 4. Primal Loss
95
(20)
Introduction
95
(3)
Intolerance for Loss
98
(6)
The Signifying Failure
104
(11)
Part II. Religion and Art: Kristeva's Minor Histories of Modernity
Chapter 5. The Powers and Limitations of Religion
115
(28)
Introduction
115
(4)
Psychoanalysis and the Sacred
119
(5)
Religious Codifications of Abjection
124
(19)
Chapter 6. The Kristevan Aesthetic
143
(26)
Introduction
143
(2)
Holbein: "God is Dead"
145
(8)
Duras: A New Suffering World
153
(9)
A New Amatory World
162
(7)
Part III. The Social and Political Implications of Kristeva's Thought
Chapter 7. Ethics and Politics
169
(48)
Introduction
169
(3)
The Ethics of Psychoanalysis
172
(34)
Nations Without Nationalism
206
(11)
Chapter 8. Kristeva's Feminism
217
(50)
Introduction
217
(2)
"Woman" and "Nature"
219
(7)
Kristeva or Butler?
226
(22)
The Maternal Feminine
248
(19)
Conclusion: Revolt Culture and Exemplary Lives
267
(10)
Notes
277
(10)
Bibliography
287
(8)
Index
295
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