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Tales of Love

Julia Kristeva author Leon Roudiez translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Columbia University Press

Publishing:2nd Jan '25

£17.99

This title is due to be published on 2nd January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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Julia Kristeva pursues her exploration of the core emotions of the human psyche through a series of philosophical and literary texts. She focuses on the role of narcissism and idealization in the formation of a love object, accounting for the role of the death drive by coining the term “love/hate.” Tales of Love offers illuminating psychoanalytic readings of Thomas Aquinas, courtly romances, Romeo and Juliet, Baudelaire, Stendhal, and Bataille, among others.

Assuming the voices of psychoanalyst, scholar, and postmodern polemicist, Kristeva discusses both the conflicts and commonalities among the Greek, Christian, Roman, and contemporary discourses on love, desire, and self. . . . The analytical work is punctuated throughout by the personal, so that intelligently moving thoughts on motherhood aptly intervene. Kristeva makes a very strong case for the claim that the goal of analysis is not a truth in but a dynamic rebirth of the analysand via language. * Choice *

ISBN: 9780231219006

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

414 pages