Hatred and Forgiveness

Julia Kristeva, Jeanine Herman

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Columbia University Press
23 December 2010

Philosophy; Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism; Cultural studies; Gender studies: women; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Psychology: emotions

Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

Julia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) through psychoanalysis and text, exploring worlds, women, religion, portraits, and the act of writing. Her inquiry spans themes, topics, and figures central to her writing, and her paths of discovery advance the theoretical innovations that are so characteristic of her thought.

Kristeva rearticulates and extends her analysis of language, abjection, idealization, female sexuality, love, and forgiveness. She examines the ""maladies of the soul,"" utilizing examples from her practice and the ailments of her patients, such as fatigue, irritability, and general malaise. She sources the Bible and texts by Marguerite Duras, St. Teresa of Avila, Roland Barthes, Simone de Beauvoir, and Georgia O'Keefe. Balancing political calamity and individual pathology, she addresses internal and external catastrophes and global and personal injuries, confronting the nature of depression, obliviousness, fear, and the agony of being and nothingness.

Throughout Kristeva develops the notion that psychoanalysis is the key to serenity, with its processes of turning back, looking back, investigating the self, and refashioning psychical damage into something useful and beautiful. Constant questioning, Kristeva contends, is essential to achieving the coming to terms we all seek at the core of forgiveness.

By: Julia Kristeva
Translated by: Jeanine Herman
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 652g
ISBN: 9780231143240
ISBN 10: 0231143249
Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 23 December 2010
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Julia Kristeva is professor of linguistics at the Universite de Paris VII and author of many acclaimed works and novels, including This Incredible Need to Believe, Murder in Byzantium, Strangers to Ourselves, New Maladies of the Soul, Time and Sense, Hannah Arendt, and Melanie Klein. She is the recipient of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought and the Holberg International Memorial Prize. Jeanine Herman is the translator of volumes 1 and 2 of Julia Kristeva's The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis, and her translation of Julien Gracq's Reading Writing was a finalist for the French-American Foundation Translation Prize.

Reviews for Hatred and Forgiveness

Julia Kristeva's book is a memorable source of reflections on the temptation and quest of being... -- Kerrin A. Jacobs Metapsychology successful in carrying over to the English-speaking public the contemporary tonalities of Kristeva's voice. -- Marios Constantinou and Maria Margaroni Years Work in Critical and Cultural Theory