Julia Kristeva is one of the most influential French thinkers of the twentiethcentury and is best known for her work in linguistics feminist theory andpsychoana... » 

Julia Kristeva is one of the most influential French thinkers of the twentiethcentury and is best known for her work in linguistics feminist theory andpsychoanalysis. Kristeva and the Political is the first book to explore andassess the relation of Kristevas work to politics and the political.Kristeva and the Political examines Kristevas relation to the political andcasts new light on her work connecting her to recent developments in literarytheory political theory and cultural studies. In particular it shows howKristevas account of the unconscious and psychoanalysis generally widens thenotion of the political.Each chapter introduces a fundamental theme in Kristevas work highlighting aspecific period of development in her thought and drawing on texts from the1960s through to the 1990s. Themes addressed include Kristevas theory ofdiscourse the theory of the subject the notion of alterity feminism andmarginality and her theory known as the politics ofmeaning. Kristeva and thePolitical also shows how Kristevas notions of the political draw on a richarray of thinkers and writers from Freud Melanie Klein and Lacan to Proustand Marguerite Duras. «