Flaptekst

This volume begins with a new essay by Julia Kristeva, 'The Adolescent Novel', in which she examines the relation novelistic writing and the experience adolescence as an 'open structure'. It is this blend of the literary with the psychoanalytic places Kristeva's work central to current thinking, from critical theory to feminism and psychoanalysis.
The essays in this volume offer insight into the working's Kristeva's thought, ranging from her analyses sexual difference, female temporality and the perceptions of the body to the states of abjection and melancholia, and their representation painting and literature.
Kristeva's persistent humanity, her profound understanding dynamics of intention and creativity, mark her out as one of leading theoreticians of desire. Each essay offers the reader a new insight into the many aspects that make up Kristeva's entire oeuvre.

The Editors
John Fletcher is Lecturer in English at the University Warwick. He has published on literary, cinematic and psychoanalytic topics. Andrew Benjamin is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is editor of Post-Structuralist Classics and The Problems of Modernity (both in the Warwick Studies in Philosophy and Literature series), co-author of What is Deconstruction? (Academy Edition), and author of Translation and the Nature of Philosophy (Routledge, 1989).