Abjection, Melancholia and Love: The Work of Julia Kristeva

by John Fletcher, Andrew Benjamin

Beginning with a previously unpublished essay by Julia Kristeva, this collection offers profound insights into work which is central to linguistic and psychoanalytic thought, and marks her out as one of the leading theoreticians of desire. This book should be of interest to advanced students and teachers of feminism, philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature, art history.

1000 pages, Paperback

First published February 2, 1989

Reviews

[Steven · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kicks off with a previously unpublished essay by Kristeva, "The Adolescent Novel," and follows with ten papers that take up a range of familiar Kristeva issues. These essays provide different entry points for engaging her themes, which made this a fun read.

[Maddy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some interesting papers but overall nothing earth shattering.