Description: JULIA KRISTEVA In The Beginning Was Love: Psychoanalysis and Faith Translated by Arthur Goldhammer Columbia University Press 1987 This evocative, tersely written book combines an overt subject with an implicit, underlyingtheme. The overt subject is a contribution to the psychoanalytic understanding of the psychologyof religious convictions--of faith. The underlying theme is a thoughtful French Lacanian analyst'scritical, yet appreciative, disengagement from her theoretical background, as she makes her wayon the road toward the contemporary mainstream of French psychoanalytic thinking.Kristeva has in the past made significant contributions in the field of psycholinguistics. Here shepresents a comprehensive statement of her approach to clinical psychoanalysis. In contrast toLacan, she places affects rather than language at the center of the contents of the Unconscious,therein following another important French critic of Lacan--André Green--who also pointed tothe weakness of Lacan's theory in neglecting the fundamental importance of affects. She retainsLacan's idea of the need for a dialectic relation between the imaginary and the symbolic in orderto grasp the ultimately "real," namely, the existence of the dynamic Unconscious and itsmanifestations in the objective world of interpersonal discourse.
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Binding: Hardcover
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Author: Kristeva, Julia; Translated by Arthur Goldhammer
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Year Printed: 1987
