Kelly Oliver is professor of philosophy and women's studies at SUNY -Stony Brook. She is the author of Reading
Kristeva and Womanizing Nietzsche among other books.
Review
"It has been apparent for some time that Julia Kristeva has inherited the intellectual throne left vacant
by the death of Simone de Beauvoir."
--Elaine Showalter
"[Kristeva´s] work is entirely new, accurate, not through scientific puritanism but because it takes
up all the space it deals with, fills it precisely, making it necessary for anyone who counts himself out to reveal
himself as an opponent or a censor."
--Roland Barthes
Columbia University Press Web Site, July, 2003
Summary
As a linguist, Julia Kristeva has pioneered a revolutionary theory of the sign in its relation to social and
political emancipation; as a practicing psychoanalyst, she has produced work on the nature of the human subject
and sexuality, and on the "new maladies" of today´s neurotic. The Portable Kristeva is the only
fully comprehensive compilation of Kristeva´s key writings. The second edition includes added material from
Kristeva´s most important works of the past five years, including The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt, Intimate
Revolt, and Hannah Arendt. Editor Kelly Oliver has also added new material to the introduction, summarizing Kristeva´s
latest intellectual endeavors and updating the bibliography.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Kristeva's Revolutions
Part 1: Kristeva's Trajectory: In Her Own Words
"My Memory's Hyperbole" (1984) from New York Literary Forum
Part 2: The Subject in Signifying Practice
Revolution in Poetic Language (1974)
Prolegomenon
The Semiotic and the Symbolic
Negativity: Rejection
Desire in Language (1980)
From One Identity to an Other (1975)
Time and Sense
Is Sensation a Form of a Language? (abridged)
Freudian Time
Part 3: Psychoanalysis of Love: A Counterdepressant
Tales of Love (1987)
Freud and Love: Treatment and Its Discontents (abridged)
Throes of Love: The Field of the Metaphor (abridged)
Extraterrestrials Suffering for Want of Love
Black Sun (1989)
Psychoanalysis-A Counterdepressant
New Maladies of the Soul (1993)
The Clinic: The Soul and the Image (abridged)
In Times Like These, Who Needs Psychoanalysis?
Part 4: Individual and National Identity
Powers of Horror (1980)
Approaching Abjection (abridged)
From Filth to Defilement (abridged)
Strangers to Ourselves (1989)
Toccata and Fugue for the Foreigner
Might Not Universality Be . . . Our Own Foreignness? (abridged)
In Practice . . .
Part 5: Maternity, Feminism, and Female Sexuality
Desire in Language (1980)
The Maternal Body (1975), from "Motherhood According to Bellini"
Tales of Love (1987)
Stabat Mater (1976)
Julia Kristeva in Conversation with Rosalind Coward (1984)
New Maladies of the Soul
Women's Time (1977)
Interview with Elaine Hoffman Baruch on Feminism in the United States and France (1980)
Black Sun (1989)
Illustrations of Feminine Depression
Hannah Arendt (1999)
Female Genius: General Introduction
Part 6: Revolt and Imagination
The Sense and Non-sense of Revolt (1996)
What Revolt Today?
Intimate Revolt (1998)
The Future of Revolt
Revolt Today
Elements for Research
