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
Kristeva, the report says, accepted the proposal, and agreed to focus her efforts on monitoring “the French cultural scene.”
From The New Yorker • Sep. 5, 2018
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
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