New Maladies of the Soul (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) (European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)

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These days, who still has a soul? asks Julia Kristeva in her psychoanalytic exploration, New Maladies of the Soul. Hailed by Peter Brooks in the New York Times as a critic of great psychoanalytic insight, Kristeva reveals to readers a new kind of patient, symptomatic of an age of political upheaval, mass-mediated culture, and the dramatic overhaul of familial and sexual mores. The book poses a troubling question about the human subject in the West today: Is the psychic space that we have traditionally known disappearing?

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These days, who still has a soul? asks Julia Kristeva in her psychoanalytic exploration, New Maladies of the Soul. Hailed by Peter Brooks in the New York Times as a critic of great psychoanalytic insight, Kristeva reveals to readers a new kind of patient, symptomatic of an age of political upheaval, mass-mediated culture, and the dramatic overhaul of familial and sexual mores. The book poses a troubling question about the human subject in the West today: Is the psychic space that we have traditionally known disappearing?

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 252
Edition: Revised ed.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 25 Feb 1998
ISBN 10: 0231099835
ISBN 13: 9780231099837
Book Overview: These days, who still has a soul? asks Julia Kristeva in her psychoanalytic exploration, New Maladies of the Soul. Hailed by Peter Brooks in the New York Times as a critic of great psychoanalytic insight, Kristeva reveals to readers a new kind of patient, symptomatic of an age of political upheaval, mass-mediated culture, and the dramatic overhaul of familial and sexual mores. The book poses a troubling question about the human subject in the West today: Is the psychic space that we have traditionally known disappearing?

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Kristeva offers a challenge for psychoanalaysis to open itself up again: to break down from its position of the one who is presumed to know. -- International Journal of Psycho-Analysis

Author Bio

Julia Kristeva, internationally known psychoanalyst and critic, is Professor of Linguistics at the University de Paris VII. She has hosted a French television series and is the author of many critically acclaimed books published by Columbia University Press in translation, including Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience of Literature and the novel, Possessions.