Intimate Revolt

The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis

By: Julia Kristeva, Jeanine Herman (Translator)

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Hardcover | 18 April 2002 | Edition Number 1

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Julia Kristeva, herself a product of the famous May '68 Paris student uprising, has long been fascinated by the concept of rebellion and revolution. Psychoanalysts believe that rebellion guarantees our independence and creative capacities, but is revolution still possible? Confronted with the culture of entertainment, can we build and nurture a culture of revolt, in the etymological and Proustian sense of the word: an unveiling, a return, a displacement, a reconstruction of the past, of memory, of meaning? In the first part of the book, Kristeva examines the manner in which three of the most unsettling modern writers -- Aragon, Sartre, and Barthes -- affirm their personal rebellion.

In the second part of the book, Kristeva ponders the future of rebellion. She maintains that the "new world order" is not favorable to revolt. "What can we revolt against if power is vacant and values corrupt?" she asks. Not only is political revolt mired in compromise among parties whose differences are less and less obvious, but an essential component of European culture -- a culture of doubt and criticism -- is losing its moral and aesthetic impact.

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Kristeva... follows up The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt with this important, interdisciplinary tour de force. Library Journal The reader will encounter in these pages the literary music of allusive, profound passages that uniquely characterize the expression of Kristeva's thoughts. Choice Kristeva's work is an intricate mix of cultural criticism and psychoanalysis... Kristeva's call to return to the intimate is salutory in a world given over to the dictates of production and consumption alone. The comments on patriotism, nationalism, hospitality and cosmopolitanism are politically astute and ethically humanist. -- Pramod K. Nayar Philosophy in Review

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Translator's Acknowledgments	p. VII
Intimate Revolt	p. 1
What Revolt Today?	p. 3
Can Forgiveness Heal?	p. 14
The Scandal of the Timeless	p. 25
The Intimate: From Sense to the Sensible (Logics, Jouissance, Style)	p. 43
Fantasy and Cinema	p. 63
Barthes: The Savor of Disenchantment	p. 81
Barthes: Constructor of Language, Constructor of the Sensory	p. 95
Barthes: The Intractable Lover	p. 115
Sartre: The Imaginary and Nothingness	p. 123
Sartre: Freedom as Questioning	p. 141
Sartre: Again, the Imaginary, Fantasy, Spectacle	p. 164
Aragon: Blanche ou l'Oubli; or, "The Farcical and Ferocious Quest for a Consciousness"	p. 181
The Future of Revolt	p. 221
Preface	p. 223
Psychoanalysis and Freedom	p. 225
The Love of Another Language	p. 240
Europhilia-Europhobia	p. 255
Notes	p. 269
Index	p. 283
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