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Book 2018.0

Passions of Our Time

Julia Kristeva

Culture Columbia University Press 9780231171441 Available

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Notes: edited with foreword by Lawrence D. Kritzman. Printed version in two notebooks

Annotation: Julia Kristeva is a true polymath, an intellectual of astonishingly wide range whose erudition and insight have been brought to bear on psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique. Passions of Our Time showcases recent essays of Kristeva’s that demonstrate the scope of her capacious intellect, her gifts as a stylist, and the profound contribution of her thought to the challenges of the present. The collection begins with а vivid recollection of celebrating, as a child in Bulgaria, Alphabet Day, the holiday honoring the Cyrillic letters, which proceeds outward into a contemplation of the writer as translator. Kristeva considers literature with Barthes, freedom through Rousseau, Teresa of Avila and mystical experience, Simone de Beauvoir’s dream life, and Antigone and the psychic life of women. A group of essays drawing on her psychoanalytic work delve into Freud, Lacan, maternal eroticism, and the continued importance of psychoanalysis today. In a series of striking investigations, she thinks through disability and normativity, monotheism and secularization, the need to believe and the desire to know. Calling for the courage to renew and reinvent humanism, she outlines the principles of a stance founded on the importance of respecting human life. Finally, Kristeva discusses French culture and diversity, rethinking universalism and interrogating the potential for Islam and psychoanalysis to meet, and pays homage to Beauvoir by rephrasing her dictum into the provocative “One is born woman, but I become one.”

Identifier: 9780231171441

Status: Available

Book 2009.0

The Parallax View

Slavoj Žižek

Philosophy MIT press 9780262240512 Available

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Annotation: The Parallax View is Slavoj Žižek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Žižek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in observational position. Žižek is interested in the "parallax gap" separating two points between which no synthesis or mediation is possible, linked by an "impossible short circuit" of levels that can never meet. From this consideration of parallax, Žižek begins a rehabilitation of dialectical materialism. Modes of parallax can be seen in different domains of today's theory, from the wave-particle duality in quantum physics to the parallax of the unconscious in Freudian psychoanalysis between interpretations of the formation of the unconscious and theories of drives. In The Parallax View, Žižek, with his usual astonishing erudition, focuses on three main modes of parallax: the ontological difference, the ultimate parallax that conditions our very access to reality; the scientific parallax, the irreducible gap between the phenomenal experience of reality and its scientific explanation, which reaches its apogee in today's brain sciences (according to which "nobody is home" in the skull, just stacks of brain meat—a condition Žižek calls "the unbearable lightness of being no one"); and the political parallax, the social antagonism that allows for no common ground. Between his discussions of these three modes, Žižek offers interludes that deal with more specific topics—including an ethical act in a novel by Henry James and anti-anti-Semitism. The Parallax View not only expands Žižek's Lacanian-Hegelian approach to new domains (notably cognitive brain sciences) but also provides the systematic exposition of the conceptual framework that underlies his entire work. Philosophical and theological analysis, detailed readings of literature, cinema, and music coexist with lively anecdotes and obscene jokes.

Identifier: 9780262240512

Status: Available

Journal Article 2000

Illness as social indicator: Hysteria in Schnitzler and Freud

Sigrid Schmid-Bortenschlager

In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Pages: 513-526

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.513

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.513

Passions of Our Time

The Parallax View

Illness as social indicator: Hysteria in Schnitzler and Freud

Abduction and comic in the sign of the three: Peirce, Freud, Eco

Symbolic Economies

Commemorative essay

Commemorative essay II

Elementary units of an action sign system: The Hasta or hand positions of Indian classical dance

Forcefield analogy for communications involving movement of the head: An exercise in ecological semiotics

Guest Editorial

Review article

Semantics and the blind child

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WHEN IS A SYMBOL? A SEMIOTIC REINTERPRETATION OF FREUDIAN SLIPS

Announcement

Corrigendum

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La lecture de l’image publicitaire

Plato/Freud/Mann: Narrative structure, undecidability, and the social text

Review article

The love-hate structure of Dangerous Corner

Towards an Interpretation of semiotics and history

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Cinders

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Language-Games as Systematic Metaphors

Review Article

Science, Linguistic Science, and the Invention of the Future

Semiotics of the Old English Charm

Shoulder Shrugging: A Densely Communicative Expressive Behavior

A GENERATIVE MODEL OF CONVERSATION

COGNITIVE PROCESSES AND LINGUISTIC FORMS OF FACTORY WORKERS

NONVERBAL EXPRESSIONS OF RITUALS IN JAPANESE SUMO

THE DRY AND THE WET: A SEMIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF CREATION AND FLOOD MYTHS

THE TRANSFORMATION IN FREUD