Sara Beardsworth 
Julia Kristeva [PDF ebook] 
Psychoanalysis and Modernity

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Suffering: A Piece of the Reality that has Come to grief

The Tendential Severance of the Semiotic and Symbolic

Part I. From the Revolutionary Standpoint to the Nihilism Problematic

1. The Early View of Psychoanalysis and Art

Introduction

The Lacanian Background

Revolution in Poetic Language

2. Primary Narcissism

The Appearance of the Nihilism Problematic

Primary Idealization

3. Ab-jection

Introduction

The Phobic Object

‘
Where Am I?’

4. Primal Loss

Introduction

Intolerance for Loss

The Signifying Failure

Part II. Art and Religion: Kristeva’s Minor Histories of Modernity

5. The Powers and Limitations of Religion

Introduction

Psychoanalysis and the Sacred

Religious Codifications of Abjection

6. The Kristevan Aesthetic

Introduction

Holbein: ‘God is dead’

Duras: A New Suffering World

A New Amatory World

Part III. The Social and Political Implications of Kristeva’s Thought

7. Ethics and Politics

Introduction

The Ethics of Psychoanalysis

Nations Without Nationalism

8. Kristeva’s Feminism

Introduction

‘Woman’ and ‘Nature’

Kristeva or Butler?

The Maternal Feminine

Conclusion: Revolt Culture and Exemplary Lives
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Sara Beardsworth is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University.