Julia Kristeva explicates her foundational distinction between the semiotic and the symbolic and explores their interrelationships. Linking the psychosomatic to the literary and the literary to a larger political horizon, she questions the premises of linguistic, psychoanalytic, philosophical, and literary theories.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Author(s): Julia Kristeva
Translator: Margaret (Pomona College) Waller
Number of pages: 304
Collection: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism