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 mother of intertextuality, has insisted that she never heard that “whimsical pseudonym” before her dossier came to light, and that may be the case.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 5, 2018
Lyubomirov stayed in touch, according to the dossier, but Kristeva quickly became less responsive.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 5, 2018
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