Research Catalog

Title

Kristeva, psychoanalysis and culture : subjectivity in crisis / Sylvie Gambaudo.

Author

Gambaudo, Sylvie, 1965-

Publication

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007.

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Details

Description

vi, 204 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

"Examining Julia Kristeva's contention that contemporary Western society is witnessing a crisis of subjectivity due to the failure of the paternal function, Gambaudo places Kristeva's thesis within the context of Freudian psychoanalytic thought and shows how Kristeva defends her position against a cultural climate privileging scientific and cognitive answers to aesthetic concerns." "Gambaudo argues that while Kristeva's position might be construed as defensive and a reactive clinging on to paternal modes of organisation of subjectivity, it also offers an analysis of subjectivity that rescues the paternal project from its decline. Eschewing a traditional emphasis on Kristeva's feminism, this book's primary interest is located at the intersection between psychoanalysis and culture, specifically analysing the superseding of Oedipus by narcissistic organisation."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy

Uniform Title

Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy

Subject

• Kristeva, Julia, 1941-
• Kristeva, Julia 1941-
• Kristeva, Julia
• Subjectivity
• Psychoanalysis and culture
• Psychoanalyse
• Subjektivität
• Kultur
• Psychoanalyse

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-198) and index.

Contents

1. Kristeva, psychoanalysis and culture : an overview -- 2. The genesis of the subject : the paternal function -- 3. The failure of the paternal function -- 4. Reassignment of the paternal function to the maternal -- 5. The maternal -- 6. Narcissism -- 7. Narcissus -- 8. Narcissistic society.

ISBN

• 9780754655619
• 075465561X

LCCN

2006037933

OCLC

• ocm76820654
• 76820654
• SCSB-9490332

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library