Julia Kristeva
Sign in to saveBulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
AI overview
Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst, and academic who has significantly influenced how we understand language, psychology, and identity. Her work matters because she developed influential theories—particularly around concepts like the "abject" and how we form our sense of self—that have shaped thinking across philosophy, literary criticism, psychology, and feminist theory.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Person
- Born
- 1941-06-24
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 9
- Total plays
- 11
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Julia+Kristeva">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
Article
Julia Kristeva (/ˈkrɪstəvə/; French: [kʁisteva]; born Yuliya Stoyanova Krasteva, Bulgarian: Юлия Стоянова Кръстева [ˈkrɤstɛvɐ]; on 24 June 1941) is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, semiotician, psychoanalyst, feminist, and novelist who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She has taught at Columbia University, and is now a professor emerita at Université Paris Cité. The author of more than 30 books, including Powers of Horror, Tales of Love, Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia, Proust and the Sense of Time, and the trilogy Female Genius, she has been awarded Commander of the Legion of Honor, Commander of the Order of Merit, the Holberg International Memorial Prize, the Hannah Arendt Prize, and the Vision 97 Foundation Prize, awarded by the Havel Foundation.
Kristeva became influential in international critical analysis, cultural studies and feminism after publishing her first book, Semeiotikè, in 1969. Her sizeable body of work includes books and essays that address intertextuality, the semiotic, and abjection, in the fields of linguistics, literary theory and criticism, psychoanalysis, biography and autobiography, political and cultural analysis, art and art history. She is prominent in structuralist and poststructuralist thought.
Gallery (4)
Connections
Categories
1941 births20th-century Bulgarian novelists20th-century Bulgarian philosophers20th-century Bulgarian women writers20th-century Bulgarian writers20th-century French philosophers20th-century French women writers20th-century French writers21st-century French philosophers21st-century French women writers21st-century French writersAcademic staff of the University of Paris