Hatred and forgiveness / Julia Kristeva ; translated by Jeanine Herman.

Author/creator Kristeva, Julia, 1941- author.
Other author Herman, Jeanine, translator.
Format Book
EditionPaperback edition.
PublicationNew York : Columbia University Press, 2012.
Copyright Date©2010
Descriptionx, 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

Uniform titleHaine et le pardon. English
SeriesEuropean perspectives
European perspectives. ^A226071
Contents Thinking about liberty in dark times -- Secularism : "values" at the limits of life -- Liberty, equality, fraternity and ... vulnerability -- On parity, again; or, women and the sacred -- From madonnas to nudes : a representation of female beauty -- The passion according to motherhood -- The war of the sexes since antiquity -- Beauvoir, presently -- Fatigue in the feminine -- The sobbing girl; or, on hysterical time -- Healing, a psychical rebirth -- From object love to objectless love -- Desire for law -- Language, sublimation, women -- Hatred and forgiveness; or, from abjection to paranoia -- Three essays; or, the victory of polymorphous perversion -- Atheism -- The triple uprooting of Israel -- What is left of our loves? -- The inevitable form -- A stranger -- Writing as strangeness and jouissance -- The "true-lie," our unassailable contemporary -- Murder in Byzantium; or, why I "ship myself on a voyage" in a novel.
Subject 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'Keeffe. 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LanguageTranslated from the French.
ISBN9780231143240 (cloth ; alk. paper)
ISBN0231143249 (cloth ; alk. paper)
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