About this title: In this long essay on abjection, Kristeva draws examples from literary figures such as Dostoevsky, Joyce, Proust, Borges, Sade, and Artaud.
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Columbia University Press, New York
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780231053471ISBN:0231053479
Description: Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. x, 219 pp., bib. notes; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. "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. "-Publisher. read more
Binding: Paperback
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Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780231053471ISBN:0231053479
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780231053471ISBN:0231053479
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Columbia University Press, Bx621
Date Published: 1982
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780231053471ISBN:0231053479
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Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780231053471ISBN:0231053479
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Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN-13:9780231053471ISBN:0231053479
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Columbia University Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780231053471ISBN:0231053479
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Edition: REPRINT
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Columbia University Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780231053471ISBN:0231053479
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Date Published: 1982-04-15
ISBN-13:9780231053471ISBN:0231053479
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"One of the heaviest theory-books I've ever read; starting the first chapter I was ready to give up, but couldn't, due to the fact that I had to write a report on it. At times I felt like crying, especially after having dragged myself through fifty pages in six to eight hours and I felt like I'd understood nothing at all.
But it was so gratifying to get through it. Kristeva's language is beautiful (even translated into English), so that made a lot of it almost delightful to read. Some of the theory went absolutely over my head, and some I thought were absolutely nonsense, but I actually enjoyed a lot of it. That which I understood and agreed with were so eloquently put I kept exclaiming "That's how it really is!". So all in all, pretty good, I think.
"The only real downside to this book is that reading it requires you to translate every damn thing from Freud to Makes-Sense. To be clear: there's a high amount of Makes-Sense in this book, but it requires you to read each instance of the word "phallus," for example, as "concept of the law," etc.
I'd be interested in seeing what someone from a non-psychoanalytic background could do with the basic ideas in this book..."
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