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New maladies of the soul

Kristeva, JuliaGuberman, Ross(Translated by)
Part of the European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism series
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These days, who still has a soul? asks Julia Kristeva in her psychoanalytic exploration, New Maladies of the Soul.

Hailed by Peter Brooks in the New York Times as "a critic of great psychoanalytic insight," 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.

The book poses a troubling question about the human subject in the West today: Is the psychic space that we have traditionally known disappearing?

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Columbia University Press
0231099835 / 9780231099837
Paperback / softback
150.195
24/10/1997
United States
English
viii, 242 p. : 1 ill.
23 cm
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