Head cases : Julia Kristeva on philosophy and art in depressed times

Head cases : Julia Kristeva on philosophy and art in depressed times / Elaine P. Miller.

"While philosophy and psychoanalysis privilege language and conceptual distinctions and mistrust the image, the philosopher and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva recognizes the power of art and the imagination to unblock important sources of meaning. She also appreciates the process through which cr...

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Main Author: Miller, Elaine P., 1962- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Series:Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts.
Subjects:
Kristeva, Julia, > 1941-
Kristeva, Julia > 1941-
Psychoanalysis and the arts.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
ART > Criticism & Theory.
Psychoanalysis and the arts
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Losing our heads
  • Kristeva and Benjamin: melancholy and the allegorical imagination
  • Kenotic art: negativity, iconoclasm, inscription
  • To be and remain foreign: tarrying with l'inquietante etrangete alongside Arendt and Kafka
  • Sublimating maman: experience, time, and the re-erotization of existence in Kristeva's reading of Marcel Proust
  • The "Orestes Complex": thinking hatred, forgiveness, Greek tragedy, and the Cinema of the "thought specular" with Hegel, Freud, and Klein
  • Conclusion: forging a head.

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