Passions of our time / Julia Kristeva ; edited with a foreword by Lawrence D. Kritzman ; translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Passions of the Times showcases recent essays of Julia Kristeva's that demonstrate her capacious intellect, her gifts as a stylist, and the profound contribution of her thought to the challenges of the present. Kristeva considers literature, translation, psychoanalysis, disability, gender, humanism, and universalism, among other topics.

Foreword / Lawrence D. Kritzman; Acknowledgments; I. Singular Liberties; 1. My Alphabet; or, How I Am a Letter; 2. Reliance: What Is Loving for a Mother?; 3. How to Speak to Literature with Roland Barthes; 4. Emile Benveniste, a Linguist Who Neither Says nor Hides, but Signifies; II. Psychoanalysis; 5. Freud, the Heart of the Matter; 6. The Contemporary Contribution of Psychoanalysis; 7. A Father Is Being Beaten to Death; 8. Maternal Eroticism; 9. Speaking in Psychoanalysis: From Symbols to Flesh and Back Again; 10. Affect, That "Intense Depth of Words"; 11. The Lacan Event; III. Women; 12. Antigone, Limit and Horizon; 13. The Passion According to Teresa of Avila; 14. Beauvoir Dreams; IV. Humanism; 15. A Felicity Named Rousseau

16. Speech, That Experience; 17. Disability Revised: The Tragic and Chance; 18. From "Critical Modernity" to "Analytical Modernity"; 19. In Jerusalem: Monotheisms and Secularization and the Need to Believe; 20. Dare Humanism; 21. Ten Principles for Twenty-First-Century Humanism; 22. On the Sanctity of Human Life; V. France, Europe, China; 23. Moses, Freud, and China; 24. Diversity Is My Motto; 25. The French Cultural MessageVI. Positions; 26. The Universal in the Singular; 27. Can One Be a Muslim Woman and a Shrink?; 28. One Is Born Woman, but I Become One; Notes; Index.

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Translated from French.

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