Tales of Love by Julia Kristeva
Her analysis deals with the role of narcissism and idealization in the formation of a love object. She accounts for the role of the death drive by coining the term love/hate.
Tales of Love
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Her analysis deals with the role of narcissism and idealization in the formation of a love object. She accounts for the role of the death drive by coining the term love/hate.
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Assuming the voices of psychoanalyst, scholar, and postmodern polimicist, Kristeva discusses both the conflicts and commonalities among the Greek, Christian, Romantic and contemporary discourses on love, desire, and self... the analytical work is punctuated throughout by the personal, so that intelligently moving thoughts on motherhood aptly intervene. Kristeva makes a very strong case for the claim that the goal of analysis is not a truth in, but a dynamic rebirth of, the analysand via language. Choice
About Julia Kristeva
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.
Table of Contents
Translator's Note In Praise of LoveI. Freud and Love: Treatment and its Discontents II. Manic Eros, Sublime Eros: On Male Sexuality A Holy Madness: She and He III. Narcissus: The New Insanity Our Faith: The Seeming IV. God is Love Ego Affectus Est. Bernard of Clairvaux: Affetc, Desire, Love Ratio Diligendi, or the Triumph of One's Own. Thomas Aquinas: Natural Love and Love of Self V. Don Juan or Loving to be Able to Romeo and Juliet: Love-Hatred in the Couple Stabat Mater VI. Throes of Love: The Field of the Metahpor The Troubadours: From Great Courtly Romance to Allegorical Narrative A Pure Silence: The Perfection of Jeanne Guyon Baudelaire, or Infinity, Perfume, and Punk Stendhal and the Politics of the Gaze: An Egotist's Love Bataille and the Sun, or the Guilty Text Extraterrestrials Suffering for Want of LoveNotes
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CIN0231060254G
9780231060257
0231060254
Tales of Love by Julia Kristeva
Used - Good
Paperback
Columbia University Press
19890405
414
N/A
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