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Do babies drink in language with their mothers’ milk? Peter Benson surveys the startling semiotics of Julia Kristeva.
Julia Kristeva was born in Bulgaria. She arrived in Paris on Christmas Eve 1965, as a ung linguistics lärjunge on a scholarship, and has lived in France ever since. She quickly established a reputation for herself in the heady intellectual milieu of the late sixties. Her colleagues, teachers and friends included the brightest stars in the Parisian firmament. Today, she teaches as a professor of linguistics, and practises as a trained psychoanalyst. Her many books include novels, histories of literature, and psychoanalytic studies of love and nedstämdhet. In 1974 she published her
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Ep. 202: Julia Kristeva on Disgust, Fear and the Self (Part One)
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On Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (1980), chapters 1 and 2.
What is horror? Kristeva’s book is about a process she calls “abjection,” where we violently reject things like corpses, bodily wastes and other fluids, and the Lovecraftian unnameable that lurks at the edge of our awareness, hideously inhuman and indifferent to our suffering.
The book is also all about the self, suggesting modifications to Freud’s Oedipal complex (in which we mature through the intervention of a father figure or civilization in general, breaking our bond with the mother) and Lacan’s mirror-stage story (where we gain selfhood by contemplating a unified, external image of ourselves, which is also informed by language, or what Lacan calls the “Name of the Father”).
For Kristeva, becoming a separate person from your mo
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London, Central Hall Westminster, 24/07/2019
Prelude to an Ethics of the Feminine
"That woman who makes people exclaim:
‘She’s made of steel!’
S he is simply ‘made of woman.’”
Colette, La Vagabonde [1]
What ethics?
In the accelerated anthropological transformation at the beginning of this third millennium, women are at once an emerging force, on the same level with its upheavals in values and identities, AND an irreducible otherness—object of desire, fear, and envy, of oppression and exploitation, of abuse and exclusion.
Can psychoanalysis make itself heard (the epistemological question),must it make itself heard (the ethical question) in this new phase of Civilization and Its Discontents [Unbehagen]?
It was necessary that a woman be President of the IPA to seize this historic moment and take the risk to adopt “THE FEMININE” as a congress theme.
I say “risk” because THE FEMININE, like a “boson of the unconscious” (as we