So though we might experience a renewed awareness of our own emotional range and emotional points of weakness-that wayward and violent passion that
Kristeva talks about-we are also a re-acquainted with the world around us, in its extremity and in all its dumb materiality, as we venture forth to encounter the implacable unwieldiness of the city with our babies and bags and buggies and bottles in tow.
Kristeva says that it is obvious that childbirth involves mental and physical suffering, that motherhood implies self-denial in making oneself anonymous in order to transmit social norms.
Smith's poetic discourse will be read in the light of some basic notions/elements from Julia
Kristeva's Desire in Language and Susanna Egan's Mirror Talk.
Kristeva's conception of Girard's mimetic theory is problematic in a postmodern context, considering the gender spectrum and the dissolution of the nuclear family.
Offering a feminist historiography of Hebrew prose, the study merges ideas from literary dialogue, psychoanalytic feminist critical theory, and the ideas of feminist literary theorists Julia
Kristeva and Judith Butler to explore the literary strategies that the women use to counter the male-dominated, patriarchal, Oedipal tradition of Hebrew literature.
Freud and
Kristeva's important studies of melancholia and mourning.
While there are numerous "ways in" to analyzing Mama, the ideas of Julia
Kristeva, specifically her comments on matricide and the symbolic order (6) are especially useful to our understanding of how Mama envelopes multiple characters in a drama of complex family and psychological dynamics, as well as the varying degrees of success the characters have in navigating traumatic experiences.
Traveling to Spain, Leclercq,
Kristeva's probing alter ego, visits the sites and embodiments of the famous mystic and awakens to her own desire for faith, connection, and rebellion.