Kristeva

American  

[kri-stey-vuh] / krɪˈsteɪ və /

noun

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

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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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Example Sentences

The show’s title, “Black Sun,” comes from the title of the philosopher Julia Kristeva’s 1987 volume on melancholia.

From New York Times

Even more crucially, it places her in the grand scheme of letters, tying her ideas to predecessors including Julia Kristeva and Hélène Cixous; to contemporaries such as Myles and Lynne Tillman; and to those who’ve come after her, Kate Zambreno and Sheila Heti among them.

From Los Angeles Times

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

So many of the concepts he has taken up in order to dismantle their power—from Marx and Althusser to Julia Kristeva—come from the same European cultures that created the colonialism that brutalized Vietnam.

From Slate

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