Julia Kristeva
After publishing her first book "Semeiotikè (Semiotics)" in 1969, Kristeva has made a great contribution in today's international critical analysis, cultural The theoretical and feminist fields began to have an impact.
Chinese name: Julia Kristeva
Nationality: France
Birthplace: Bulgaria
Date of birth: June 1941 February 24
Occupation: teacher, writer, thinker, new psychoanalyst
Main achievements: one of the greatest French philosophers
Representative works : "Semeiotikè (Semiotics)"
Introduction
Julia Kristeva (Julia Kristeva, June 24, 1941), French thinker, psychoanalyst, philosopher, literature Critic, psychoanalyst, feminist. After Kristeva published her first book "Semeiotikè (Semiotics)" in 1969, she began to have an impact on today's international critical analysis, cultural theory and feminism. She has written widely, including books, essays, and prefaces to publications on architectural significance, including insights on intertextuality, semiotics, and humiliation, covering linguistics, literary theory and criticism, psychoanalysis, biography, and autobiography. , political and literary analysis, art and art history. Her work also plays an important role in poststructuralist thought.
Personal History
Julia Kristeva arrived in France in 1960. Kristeva felt the influence of structuralism gradually fading, and was inspired by Michel Foucault and Jacques Derry. The challenge of thinking. Joining the "TelQuel Group" in 1965, she began to pay attention to the politics of language and became an active member of the group. Kristeva received psychoanalytic training, completing it in 1979. She devoted herself to the study of linguistics, semiotics and poststructuralism in her early days, and encountered Freud and Lacan under the influence of the "as is" school (Telquel). "Semiotics - Analytical Semiotics", "Language - The Unknown: An Attempt in Linguistics", and "Novel Text" published in 1969 and 1970 made her stand out in French academic circles. The publication of Kristeva's doctoral thesis "The Revolution of Poetic Language" in 1974 marked the climax of her semiotic research. It also marked that Kristeva's research focus was about to shift from semiotics to women's issues. In the spring of 1974, Kristeva came to China with the "As It Is" school. This trip to China made Kristeva begin to pay attention to personal inner experience issues. Her subsequent pregnancy and childbirth prompted her to pay more attention to maternal issues and the relationship between the body and society. , the publication of "Chinese Women" in 1975 marked her beginning to enter the field of feminist criticism and psychoanalysis, and began to focus on feminism, psychoanalysis and deconstruction. Since then, she has explored issues such as women, desire, love, edge, and subversion from the aspects of literature, art, and history, and analyzed the symptoms of depression, anxiety, and fear displayed by humans in Western civilized societies, as well as ways to treat spiritual diseases. In the following ten years, he wrote a large number of works on the subject of subconsciousness, sex and feminism. "La Maria" (1977), "Truth and Reality" (1979), and "Women's Time" are representative works of the ideological development at this stage.
Influence of her works
Since the 1980s, almost all of Kristeva's writings have been translated into English, most of them published by Columbia University Press.
Among them, the most important and influential English translation of the work is Toril Moi's "Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory," (1986), John Julia Kristeva by John Lechte (1990), Abjection, Melancholy, and Love: The Writings of Julia Kristeva, edited by A.E. Benjamin and John Fletcher "(Abjection, Melancholia and Love: The Works of Julia Kristeca, 1990), "Body/Text in Julia Kristeca_Religion, Women," edited by David R. Crownfield andPsychoanalysis, 1992), Reading Kristeva: Unraveling the Double_Bind (1993), written by Kelly Oliver, and Ethics, Politics, and Difference in Julia Kristeva's Works edited by her. sWriting, 1993), as well as Noelle MacAfee's "Julia Kristeva" (Julia Kristeva, 2004) and other works. This fully demonstrates Kristeva's important position in Western academia.
Personal evaluation
Toril Moi (1986a) pointed out that the intellectual background of Kristeva’s early research included Marxism, formalism and Hegelian philosophy. Her understanding of Russian formalism came from her studies in Eastern Europe: Kristeva and her compatriot Tzvetan Torodov introduced the theories of the Russian formalist theorist Bakhtin to Europe. The study during this period also gave her a solid theoretical foundation of Marxism. Tory Mova believes that this dual knowledge background of Marxism and formalism enabled Kristeva not only to quickly accept structuralism, but also to apply and transform structuralism with her own unique plan. Noelle MacAfee (2004) believes that Kristeva's philosophy is part of the modern European tradition of subjectivity philosophy. She follows the footsteps of Hegel, Nietzsche and a series of French philosophers, using post-structuralist tools. , provides a clear explanation of how subjectivity is produced. McPhee points out: Kristeva developed another metaphysical tradition, namely "process philosophy", which is fundamentally different from the ontological metaphysics of absolute identity and solidification from Plato to Descartes.
Honors
In 2004 Kristeva was awarded the "Holberg International Prize" for her "latest research on the intersection of language, culture and literature"; in 2006 , she won the Hannah Arendt Prize for her political views.