A towering figure in contemporary French intellectual life whose writings have helped shape cultural studies, literary studies, and feminist criticism turns her attention to one of the central aspects of twentieth-century culture: Rebellion.
In her latest book on the powers and limits of psychoanalysis, Kristeva focuses on an intriguing new dilemna. Freud and psychoanalysis taught us that rebellion is what guarantees our independence and our creative abilites. But in our contemporary "entertainment"culture, is rebellion still a viable option? Is it still possible to build and embrace a counterculture? For whom - and against what - and in what forms?
"Julia Kristeva changes the plave of things: she always destroys the latest preconception, the one we thought we could be comforted by, the one which we could be proud; what she displaces is the illusion that it has all been said already." Roland Barthes