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Kristeva

American  
[kri-stey-vuh] / krɪˈsteɪ və /

noun

  1. Julia, born 1941, French literary theorist, critic, and psychoanalyst, born in Bulgaria.


Kristeva British  
/ krɪsˈteɪvə /

noun

  1. Julia. born 1941, French semiotician, born in Bulgaria. Her works include La Révolution du langage poétique (1974), Histoires d'amour (1983), and the autobiographical novel Les Samourais (1990)

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A gnawing spiritual hunger, what the psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva calls “this incredible need to believe,” compels human beings, along a thousand different streams, toward a nonhuman intelligence who knows more than we do.

From Slate Oct. 18, 2021

Would Julia Kristeva have developed her ideas about the symbolic if she wasn’t an outsider by birth in her adopted France?

From The Guardian Nov. 18, 2020

Julia Kristeva argued in “Powers of Horror” that communities maintain their cohesion by the designation of a “pollution” that must be rejected by the group’s members.

From Washington Post Jan. 10, 2019

Is it possible, I asked, that Kristeva met with Draganov, but didn’t understand whom she was speaking to?

From The New Yorker Sep. 5, 2018

Kristeva did not get much involved in the cultural or political life of her homeland.

From The New Yorker Sep. 5, 2018

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