Free Psychology Books:Julia Kristeva Psychoanalysis and Modernity Suny Series in Gender Theory (2004) by Sara Beardsworth

Julia Kristeva Psychoanalysis and Modernity Suny Series in Gender Theory (2004) by Sara Beardsworth 

What moves the argument of this book is the thought that unacknowl-edged suffering is the remnant of freedom in conditions of late modernity. This is Kristeva’s thought. . . . Let me begin again by outlining this project’s three major objectives. The first is to explicate the central psychoanalytic, aesthetic, ethical, and political concepts in Kristeva’s writings from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, with a special emphasis on her 1980s thought. The second is to develop an interpretation of her thought as a philosophy of modernity sensitive to the problem of modern nihilism, arguing that this inter-pretation best captures her vision and project and best enables the assessment of that project, especially Kristeva’s choice of psychoanalysis and the aesthetic to structure her thought, but also her relationship to religion. Third, I revisit the most troubled questions in the reception of her writings on the basis of this interpretation, in order to clarify why so many are intrigued by them, and then all but the few move on. This book introduces and readdresses the problems but also works to illuminate and reinforce the intrigue by clarifying the reasons for it. It needs to be acknowledged that, at first sight, the classification of her oeuvreas a philosophy of modernity might strike readers of Kristeva as uncon-vincing. Given her turn to psychoanalysis and art, it would seem to be necessary to recognize that the oeuvreis best characterized as a philosophy of culture rooted in the psychoanalytic view of subjectivity. However, it is the very way in which psychoanalysis structures her thought which justifies the claim that it is a philosophy of modernity. I argue that the central texts of Kristeva’s writings of the 1980s contain a self-consciousness of the emergence and significance of psycho-analysis as a discourse embedded in conditions of modern nihilism.

 
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