Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Julia Kristeva

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Considers the social and political significance of Kristeva's oeuvre.

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Politics from 'a bit of a distance'	p. 1
Two Statements
A Meditation, a Political Act, an Art of Living Julia Kristeva, translated	p. 19
Decollations	p. 29
The Violence of the Spectacle
Meaning against Death	p. 49
Kristeva's Intimate Revolt and Thought Specular: Encountering the (Mulholland) Drive	p. 65
Julia Kristeva and the Trajectory of the Image	p. 79
The Darkroom of the Soul	p. 97
Julia Kristeva's Chiasmatic Journeys: From Byzantium to the Phantom of Europe and the End of the World	p. 107
Intimacy and the Loss of Politics
Love's Lost Labors: Subjectivity, Art, and Politics	p. 127
Symptomatic Reading: Kristeva on Duras	p. 143
What Is Intimacy?	p. 163
Fear of Intimacy? Psychoanalysis and the Resistance to Commodification	p. 179
Humanism, the Rights of Man, and the Nation-State	p. 195
Kristeva's Uncanny Revolution: Imagining the Meaning of Politics	p. 213
Religion and the "Rights of Man" in Julia Kristeva's Work	p. 229
Contributors	p. 241
Index	p. 245
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