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Kristeva

American  
[kri-stay-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

Was it possible that Draganov had made up his reports about Kristeva?

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 5, 2018

Kristeva insists that the State Security reports made public by the Dossier Committee are equally fictional.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 5, 2018

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