The severed head

The severed head: capital visions

by Kristeva, Julia

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Linguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist, Julia Kristeva is one of the most influential and prolific thinkers of our time. Her writings have broken new ground in the study of the self, the mind, and the ways in which we communicate through language. Her work is unique in that it skillfully brings together psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice, literature, linguistics, and philosophy. In her latest book on the powers and limits of psychoanalysis, Kristeva focuses on an intriguing new…

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  • Full title :The severed head : capital visions / Julia Kristeva ; translated by Jody Gladding.

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Linguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist, Julia Kristeva is one of the most influential and prolific thinkers of our time. Her writings have broken new ground in the study of the self, the mind, and the ways in which we communicate through language. Her work is unique in that it skillfully brings together psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice, literature, linguistics, and philosophy. In her latest book on the powers and limits of psychoanalysis, Kristeva focuses on an intriguing new dilemma. Freud and psychoanalysis taught us that rebellion is what guarantees our indepe.

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  • Publication Date:©2012.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xxii, 162 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0231530382, 9780231530385, 9781281961396, 1281961396
  • oclc:ocn773987225
  • LC Classification:N8217.H5
  • Dewey Decimal:704.9/42

Table of Contents

Half title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword: Françoise Viatte -- Alibi? Régis Michel -- 1: On Drawing -- or, The Speed of Thought -- 2: The Skull: Cult and Art -- Chapter 2 Illustrations -- 3: Who Is Medusa? -- 4: The True Image: A Holy Face -- Chapter 4 Illustrations -- 5: A Digression: Economy, Figure, Face -- 6: The Ideal Figure -- or, A Prophesy in Actuality: Saint John the Baptist -- 7: Beheadings -- Chapter 7 Illustrations -- 8: From the Guillotine to the Abolition of Capital Punishment -- Chapter 8 Illustrations -- 9: Powers of Horror

Chapter 9 Illustrations -- 10: The Face and the Experience of Limits -- Chapter 10 Illustrations -- Notes -- Index -- Series List

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Subjects

ART -- Subjects & Themes Art européen -- Thèmes, motifs Art, European -- Themes, motives Beheading in art Décapitation dans l'art Head in art PHILOSOPHY -- Aesthetics Tête dans l'art

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Kristeva, Julia

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