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
“Julia Kristeva changes the order of things: she always destroys the latest preconception, the one we thought we could be comforted by,” Barthes wrote in a review.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 5, 2018
In Paris, liberated from home and family, Kristeva perfectly met the revolutionary spirit of the era.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 5, 2018
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