Julia Kristeva

Professions :

Philosopher

Born :

June 24, 1941

Love is the time and space where "I" give myself the right to be... by Julia Kristeva

Love is the time and space where "I" give myself the right to be extraordinary.

space love-is giving

When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning, of colors, of words, of caresses, there are light touches, scents, sighs, cadences that arise, shroud me, carry me away, and sweep me beyond the things I see, hear, or think, The "sublime" object dissolves in the raptures of a bottomless memory. It is such a memory, which, from stopping point to stopping point, remembrance to remembrance, love to love, transfers that object to the refulgent point of the dazzlement in which I stray in order to be.

sky memories thinking

Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt, the field where human freedom is unfurled. The modern world, the world of world war, the Third World, the underground world of death that acts upon us, do not have the civilized splendor of the Greek city state. The modern political domain is massively, in totalitarian fashion, social, leveling, exhausting. Hence madness is a space of antisocial, apolitical, and paradoxically free individuation

fashion cities war

Significance is inherent in the human body. by Julia Kristeva

Significance is inherent in the human body.

significance body photography

That faith be analyzable does not necessarily imply a method for... by Julia Kristeva

That faith be analyzable does not necessarily imply a method for getting by without it. . . .

method doe

The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist. by Julia Kristeva

The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist.

depressed-person sullen atheist

Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components – that is doubtless a way to curb mourning.

mourning suffering way

Abjection is above all ambiguity. Because, while releasing a hold, it does not radically cut off the subject from what threatens it --- on the contrary, abjection acknowledges it to be in perpetual danger.

abjection cutting doe

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