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Title: New Maladies of the Soul
by Julia Kristeva, Ross Guberman
ISBN: 0-231-09983-5
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Pub. Date: 15 April, 1997
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $21.50
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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

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Rating: 5
Summary: The best introduction to Kristeva
Comment: For a long time, I struggled with 'The Portable Kristeva,' 'Black Sun,' 'Powers of Horror,' and the 'Kristeva Reader,' but I've finally found a great, accessible introduction to Kristeva's writing on psychoanalysis and the problems of modern culture.

Kristeva sees a generation of materialists who have abandoned old ways of finding spiritual coherence. What we've lost, Kristeva says, is an understanding of the soul. Kristeva isn't arguing that the soul exists - she simply argues that we no longer think of our lives in terms of a soul, so we no longer have a language to express our spiritual wholeness. This leads to a fragmentation of our lives that leaves us feeling alone, but not one, and transforms our lives into thousands of broken experiences, broken senses, broken values. We are unable to find perspective, unable to assign meaning; instead, our subjectivity is shattered.

Kristeva weaves her gorgeous narrative concerning the loss of the soul with a series of clinical/critical discussions of specific patients and issues in psychoanalysis. Here we find stimulating applications of Freud and Lacan that are disturbingly compelling, and constitute some of the most brilliant and most accessible writings in the history of psychoanalysis.

This is a great book for people interested in psychology, critical theory, religion, feminism, or just a very intelligent book on the new maladies afflicting the modern soul, the new ways in which we're all disintegrating, and a new vision for the relationship of language and the psyche, a suggestion for the revitalization of the soul as a way of relating to ourselves.

Rating: 5
Summary: Julia Kristeva's best work on Psychoanalysis
Comment: One of the most renowned researchers in the field of Social Studies, Kristeva has gone deeply in the facts of the soul in our modern world, exercising her acute views on the disturbs that affect the human soul. The two halves of the book: The clinic and History lead us through a path full of novelties regarding the presence of man/woman in this world and how this very world causes so many new diseases...not only in the body, but mainly in the soul of them. Lacan and Freud would be surprised to see how their works were so consitently revisited

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