Name: Intimate Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis
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Author: Julia Kristeva
ISBN: 9780231216777

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Intimate Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis

Type

Physical Book

Author

Julia Kristeva

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Language

English

Pages

392

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780231216777

Synopsis "Intimate Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis"

Julia Kristeva, herself a product of the famous May '68 Paris student uprising, has long been fascinated by the concept of rebellion and revolution. Psychoanalysts believe that rebellion guarantees our independence and creative capacities, but is revolution still possible? Confronted with the culture of entertainment, can we build and nurture a culture of revolt, in the etymological and Proustian sense of the word: an unveiling, a return, a displacement, a reconstruction of the past, of memory, of meaning? In the first part of the book, Kristeva examines the manner in which three of the most unsettling modern writers--Aragon, Sartre, and Barthes--affirm their personal rebellion. In the second part of the book, Kristeva ponders the future of rebellion. She maintains that the "new world order" is not favorable to revolt. "What can we revolt against if power is vacant and values corrupt?" she asks. Not only is political revolt mired in compromise among parties whose differences are less and less obvious, but an essential component of European culture--a culture of doubt and criticism--is losing its moral and aesthetic impact.

Julia Kristeva

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She is a writer, psychoanalyst, member of the University Institute of France, and a professor at the University Diderot-Paris VII, where she heads the Doctoral School "Language, Literature, Image" and the Roland Barthes Center. She holds doctorates from numerous universities and is a member of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society. She is part of the Economic and Social Council of France and chairs the National Council "Disability: Awareness, Information, Training". In 2004, she received the Holberg Prize (Norway); and in 2006, the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought (Bremen). She has written about thirty books, novels, and essays, including Strangers to Ourselves (1988), The Samurai (1992), The Female Genius: Hannah Arendt, Vol. I (1999), Melanie Klein, Vol. II (2003), Colette: A Female Genius (2007).

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