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Intimate Revolt: The Powers and the Limits of Psychoanalysis
Contributor(s): Kristeva, Julia (Author), Herman, Jeanine (Translator)

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 ISBN: 0231114141     ISBN-13: 9780231114141
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2002
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Annotation: Julia Kristeva, herself a product of the famous May '68 Paris student uprising, has long been fascinated by the concept of rebellion and revolution. Psychoanalysts believe that rebellion guarantees our independence and creative capacities, but is revolution still possible? Confronted with the culture of entertainment, can we build and nurture a culture of revolt, in the etymological and Proustian sense of the word: an unveiling, a return, a displacement, a reconstruction of the past, of memory, of meaning? In the first part of the book, Kristeva examines the manner in which three of the most unsettling modern writers -- Aragon, Sartre, and Barthes -- affirm their personal rebellion.

In the second part of the book, Kristeva ponders the future of rebellion. She maintains that the "new world order" is not favorable to revolt. "What can we revolt against if power is vacant and values corrupt?" she asks. Not only is political revolt mired in compromise among parties whose differences are less and less obvious, but an essential component of European culture -- a culture of doubt and criticism -- is losing its moral and aesthetic impact.

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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
- Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis
Dewey: 809.933
LCCN: 2001055963
Age Level: 22-UP
Grade Level: 17-UP
Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought & Cultural Criticism (Hardcover)
Physical Information: 1.03" H x 6.36" W x 9.32" L (1.24 lbs) 392 pages
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Library Journal 06/15/2002 pg. 81
Choice 11/01/2002 pg. 454
 
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Julia Kristeva, herself a product of the famous May '68 Paris student uprising, has long been fascinated by the concept of rebellion and revolution. Psychoanalysts believe that rebellion guarantees our independence and creative capacities, but is revolution still possible? Confronted with the culture of entertainment, can we build and nurture a culture of revolt, in the etymological and Proustian sense of the word: an unveiling, a return, a displacement, a reconstruction of the past, of memory, of meaning? In the first part of the book, Kristeva examines the manner in which three of the most unsettling modern writers--Aragon, Sartre, and Barthes--affirm their personal rebellion.

In the second part of the book, Kristeva ponders the future of rebellion. She maintains that the "new world order" is not favorable to revolt. "What can we revolt against if power is vacant and values corrupt?" she asks. Not only is political revolt mired in compromise among parties whose differences are less and less obvious, but an essential component of European culture--a culture of doubt and criticism--is losing its moral and aesthetic impact.

Contributor Bio(s): Kristeva, Julia: - Julia Kristeva is professor of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII and author of many acclaimed works and novels, including The Severed Head: Capital Visions, This Incredible Need to Believe, Hatred and Forgiveness, and Teresa, My Love: An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila, all published by Columbia. She is the recipient of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought and the Holberg International Memorial Prize.
 
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