Intimate Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis

by Julia Kristeva

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023111415X
• ISBN13: 9780231114158
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.9"