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Jun 27, 2024 · Throughout her theoretical writings, Julia Kristeva calls into question the privileged position of the symbolic order in Jacques Lacan's teaching and clinical practice.
In the opening pages of the elementary structure of all language and of all Powers of Horror, Kristeva repeatedly posits a unconscious processes, Kristeva's essay, in effect, connection between abjection and the border.
Drawing on the French tradition of interest in the monstrous (e.g., novelist Louis-Ferdinand Céline), and of the subject as grounded in "filth" (e.g., psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan), Julia Kristeva developed the idea of the abject as that which is rejected by or disturbs social reason – the communal consensus that underpins a social order.
Jun 27, 2024 · How much violence can a society expect its members to accept? A comparison between the language theories of Julia Kristeva and Jacques Lacan is the starting point for answering this question. A look at the early stages of language acquisition exposes the sacrificial logic of patriarchal society.
- Bettina Schmitz, Julia Jansen
- 2005
According to Kristeva, the speaking subject is a divided subject. In keeping with the views of both Freud and Lacan, she proposes that the speaking subject consists of a conscious mind containing social constraints such as family structures and modes of production and an unconscious mind consisting of bio-physiological processes, which are what ...
Jun 27, 2024 · Summary. While admitting that Lacan ‘was brilliant’ and ‘a friend’, Julia Kristeva offers a sustained and radical critique of his conceptual framework and, by extension, his concept of the subject.
Julia Kristeva attempts to expose the limits of Lacan's theory of language by revealing the semiotic dimension of language that it excludes. She argues that the semiotic potential of language is subversive, and describes the semiotic as a poetic-
