Machine generated contents note: Kristeva's Autobiographical Reflections
Chapter Descriptions
1. Kristeva's Theory of Meaning and Subjectivity
The Semiotic and the Symbolic
From the Symbolic to the Semiotic
The Phenomenological Theory of Meaning
From the Semiotic to the Symbolic
The Psychoanalytic Theory of Meaning
The Dialectic of Semiotic and Symbolic
2. Kristeva's Psychoanalytic
Abjection, Love, and Loss
Kristeva's Theory of Subjective Diachrony
Abjection, Love, and Loss in the Wake of Symbolic Collapse
3. The Public Stakes of Intimacy
What is Intimacy?
Intimacy and the Event of Natality
Freud's Involution of Intimacy
Abjection
Intimate Suffering/ Public Horror
"Ravaged Intimacy" and the Event of Death
What's Love Got to Do with It?
4. Intimate Revolt, Temporality, and the Society of the Spectacle
The Spectacular Horizon of Kristeva's Concept of Revolt
The Scandal of Timelessness
Kristeva's Phenomenological-Psychoanalytic Concept of Time
In Search of an Experience, or Revolt
Sex and Time
The Interminable Revolt of Female Genius
The Future of Intimate Revolt
5. So Many Oedipuses, So Little Time
Reviving Oedipus
Oedipus is Dead, and We Have Killed Him
The Irony of Antigone, Pariah of the Phallic Sacred
Anti-Oedipus
Beyond Sexual Difference, an Incurable Stranger
6. Kristeva's Novelistic Approach to Social and Political Life
Homo Spectator
Detective Fiction
A Proper, Specular Inquiry
Inspector Freud; Dr. Delacour
My Own Private Byzantium; or, the Odd Future Anterior of Kristeva's Hero.