Kristeva, Julia

Kristeva, Julia
born June 24, 1941, Sliven, Bulg.

Bulgarian-born French psychoanalyst, critic, and educator.

Professor of linguistics at the University of Paris VII, she is known for her writings in structuralist linguistics (see structuralism), psychoanalysis, semiotics, and feminism. She was a protégé of Roland Barthes, and she synthesized elements from such thinkers as Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, and Mikhail Bakhtin in creating her own theories. Her novels include The Samurai (1990) and The Old Man and the Wolves (1991).

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▪ French author
born June 24, 1941, Sliven, Bulg.

      Bulgarian-born French psychoanalyst, critic, and educator best known for her writings in structuralist linguistics, psychoanalysis, semiotics, and feminism.

      Kristeva received a degree in linguistics from the University of Sofia in 1966 and later that year immigrated to France, where, as a doctoral fellow, she was research assistant to the structuralist and Marxist critic Lucien Goldmann. She soon became a member of the group of intellectuals associated with the journal Tel Quel. The critic Roland Barthes (Barthes, Roland) became her mentor. Her articles soon appeared in scholarly journals and in Maoist publications. Kristeva received her doctorate in linguistics in 1973 from the School of Higher Education in Social Sciences in Paris. Her doctoral dissertation, La Révolution du langage poétique (1974; partial translation, Revolution in Poetic Language), was hailed for its application of psychoanalytic theory to language and literature. Kristeva held the professorial chair in linguistics at the University of Paris VII.

      To Barthes, Kristeva was ever “l'étrangère,” “the stranger,” who “destroyed the latest preconception” and whose political and psychological theories were frequently revisionist. Kristeva's theories synthesized elements from such dissimilar thinkers as Jacques Lacan (Lacan, Jacques), Michel Foucault (Foucault, Michel), and Mikhail Bakhtin (Bakhtin, Mikhail). Two distinct trends characterize her writings: an early structuralist-semiotic phase and a psychoanalytic-feminist phase. Her works include Sēmeiōtikē: recherches pour une sémanalyse (1969) and Polylogue (1977), which were in part translated as Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art (1980). Her other writings include Des Chinoises (1974; About Chinese Women), Au commencement était l'amour: psychanalyse et foi (1985; In the Beginning Was Love: Psychoanalysis and Faith), Soleil noir: dépression et mélancolie (1987; Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia), and Étrangers à nous-mêmes (1988; Strangers to Ourselves). Her novels, which are semiautobiographical, include Les Samouraïs (1990; The Samurai), about the student riots of the late 1960s, and Le Vieil Homme et les loups (1991; The Old Man and the Wolves). The Kristeva Reader, edited by Toril Moi, was published in 1986 and The Portable Kristeva in 1997.

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