Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
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Bulgarian-French philosopher who spent decades unpacking psychoanalysis, semiotics, and the messier sides of human experience. Her books on depression, desire, and female genius pulled intellectual weight across academia and beyond.
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Julia Kristeva 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 V…
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