Ebook: Passions of Our Time

Intro; Table of Contents; Foreword, by Lawrence D. Kritzman; Acknowledgments; I. Singular Liberties; 1. My Alphabet; or, How I Am a Letter; 2. Reliance: What Is Loving for a Mother?; 3. How to Speak to Literature with Roland Barthes; 4. Emile Benveniste, a Linguist Who Neither Says nor Hides, but Signifies; II. Psychoanalysis; 5. Freud, the Heart of the Matter; 6. The Contemporary Contribution of Psychoanalysis; 7. A Father Is Being Beaten to Death; 8. Maternal Eroticism; 9. Speaking in Psychoanalysis: From Symbols to Flesh and Back Again; 10. Affect, That "Intense Depth of Words.";Passions of the Times showcases recent essays of Julia Kristeva's that demonstrate her capacious intellect, her gifts as a stylist, and the profound contribution of her thought to the challenges of the present. Kristeva considers literature, translation, psychoanalysis, disability, gender, humanism, and universalism, among other topics.