Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic · France · Academics · Born 1941 · age 85
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Something wrong?She coined "intertextuality" and "abjection," terms that rewired how we read texts and bodies. A philosopher-psychoanalyst who moved from Bulgaria to Paris in the '60s, Kristeva built a vocabulary for what unsettles us - what's neither subject nor object, neither inside nor out.
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Born Yuliya Stoyanova Krasteva in Bulgaria on 24 June 1941, she arrived in France in the mid-1960s and never left. Her first book, Semeiotikè, appeared in 1969 and made her a force in structuralist and poststructuralist circles. Over more than 30 books - Powers of Horror, Tales of Love, Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia, the trilogy Female Genius - she threaded psychoanalysis through linguistics, literary theory, and cultural critique. She taught at Columbia, became professor emerita at Université Paris Cité, and collected the Holberg Prize, the Hannah Arendt Prize, and both Commander ranks in France's Legion of Honor and Order of Merit. She also founded the committee for the Simone de Beauvoir Prize, closing a circle with the thinker whose mantle she inherited.
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