Hatred and Forgiveness

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Women&, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy
Cover of the book Hatred and Forgiveness by Julia Kristeva, Columbia University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Julia Kristeva ISBN: 9780231512787
Publisher: Columbia University Press Publication: December 23, 2010
Imprint: Columbia University Press Language: English
Author: Julia Kristeva
ISBN: 9780231512787
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication: December 23, 2010
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Language: English

Julia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) through psychoanalysis and text, exploring worlds, women, religion, portraits, and the act of writing. Her inquiry spans themes, topics, and figures central to her writing, and her paths of discovery advance the theoretical innovations that are so characteristic of her thought.

Kristeva rearticulates and extends her analysis of language, abjection, idealization, female sexuality, love, and forgiveness. She examines the "maladies of the soul," utilizing examples from her practice and the ailments of her patients, such as fatigue, irritability, and general malaise. She sources the Bible and texts by Marguerite Duras, St. Teresa of Avila, Roland Barthes, Simone de Beauvoir, and Georgia O'Keefe. Balancing political calamity and individual pathology, she addresses internal and external catastrophes and global and personal injuries, confronting the nature of depression, obliviousness, fear, and the agony of being and nothingness.

Throughout Kristeva develops the notion that psychoanalysis is the key to serenity, with its processes of turning back, looking back, investigating the self, and refashioning psychical damage into something useful and beautiful. Constant questioning, Kristeva contends, is essential to achieving the coming to terms we all seek at the core of forgiveness.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Julia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) through psychoanalysis and text, exploring worlds, women, religion, portraits, and the act of writing. Her inquiry spans themes, topics, and figures central to her writing, and her paths of discovery advance the theoretical innovations that are so characteristic of her thought.

Kristeva rearticulates and extends her analysis of language, abjection, idealization, female sexuality, love, and forgiveness. She examines the "maladies of the soul," utilizing examples from her practice and the ailments of her patients, such as fatigue, irritability, and general malaise. She sources the Bible and texts by Marguerite Duras, St. Teresa of Avila, Roland Barthes, Simone de Beauvoir, and Georgia O'Keefe. Balancing political calamity and individual pathology, she addresses internal and external catastrophes and global and personal injuries, confronting the nature of depression, obliviousness, fear, and the agony of being and nothingness.

Throughout Kristeva develops the notion that psychoanalysis is the key to serenity, with its processes of turning back, looking back, investigating the self, and refashioning psychical damage into something useful and beautiful. Constant questioning, Kristeva contends, is essential to achieving the coming to terms we all seek at the core of forgiveness.

More books from Columbia University Press

Cover of the book Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom by Julia Kristeva
Cover of the book Revelry, Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal by Julia Kristeva
Cover of the book The Orphan of Zhao and Other Yuan Plays by Julia Kristeva
Cover of the book Sources of Japanese Tradition by Julia Kristeva
Cover of the book Gender, Globalization, and Postsocialism by Julia Kristeva
Cover of the book Four Jews on Parnassus—a Conversation by Julia Kristeva
Cover of the book Man, the State, and War by Julia Kristeva
Cover of the book A Coney Island Reader by Julia Kristeva
Cover of the book After the Silents by Julia Kristeva
Cover of the book On Friendship by Julia Kristeva
Cover of the book Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan . . . and Beyond by Julia Kristeva
Cover of the book Morals and Markets by Julia Kristeva
Cover of the book Earth at Risk by Julia Kristeva
Cover of the book Recovering Buddhism in Modern China by Julia Kristeva
Cover of the book American Capitalism by Julia Kristeva
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy