Kristeva
Americannoun
noun
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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
The character in the book named Julia Kristeva works undercover for the Bulgarian intelligence services, headed by her own father.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 5, 2018
She had joined the editorial board in 1995, in a purely symbolic capacity: her name was meant to lend cachet to the obscure cultural weekly, published in Sofia, where Kristeva and I grew up.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 5, 2018
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