New Maladies of the Soul

Julia Kristeva

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Columbia University Press
13 June 2024

Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)

Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

"""These days, who still has a soul?"" asks Julia Kristeva in her psychoanalytic exploration, New Maladies of the Soul. Drawing on her many years of experience as a practicing psychoanalyst, Kristeva reveals to readers a new kind of patient, symptomatic of an age of political upheaval, mass mediated culture, and the dramatic overhaul of familial and sexual mores. New Maladies of the Soul poses a troubling question about the human subject in the West today: Is the psychic space that we have traditionally known disappearing?

Kristeva finds that the psychoanalytic models of Freud and Lacan need to be reread in light of this new patient, a product of the contemporary moral crisis of values resulting from a loss of ideology and a deterioration of belief. By revisiting Freud and Lacan, Kristeva offers the hope of a new psychoanalysis. Each patient, she contends, suffers from a unique malady which must be targeted. In the first half of New Maladies of the Soul, Kristeva offers a series of detailed and fascinating case studies that reinforce her provocative theoretical notions. These case studies illustrate today's ""new maladies""-common psychiatric disturbances such as hysteria, obsessional neurosis, and perversion-as they are manifested in today's patient. Drawing on the work of psychologist Helene Deutsch and the writer Germaine de Stael. Kristeva turns her attention in the second half of the book to women's experience and contributions within the broader context of contemporary history. Delving into art, literature, autobiography, and theories of language, she continues with an exploration of cultural products ranging from the Bible to the work of Leonardo da Vinci. Kristeva offers the hope that these maladies harbor new creative potential and new hope for the soul-if we can comprehend their effect on the individual and collective experiences of our time."

By: Julia Kristeva
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm,
ISBN: 9780231216715
ISBN 10: 0231216718
Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Pages: 242
Publication Date: 13 June 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 “for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature.”

Reviews for New Maladies of the Soul

Kristeva once again demonstrates her uncanny ability to dissect and expose the bloody and erotic scenarios of psychic life. * Journal of Religion and Health * Kristeva’s patient is not only the suffering individual but psychoanalysis itself. . . . Kristeva offers a challenge for psychoanalysis to open itself up again: to break down from its position of the one who is presumed to know. * International Journal of Psychoanalysis *

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