Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 “for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature.”

• Abbreviations and ChronologyPart 1: The Nothingness of All Things1. Present by Default2. Mystical Seduction3. Dreaming, Music, Ocean4. Homo ViatorPart 2: Understanding Through Fiction5. Prayer, Writing, Politics6. How to Write Sensible Experience, or, of Water as the Fiction of Touch7. The Imaginary of an Unfindable Sense Curled Into a God Findable in MePart 3: The Wanderer8. Everything So Constrained Me9. Her Lovesickness10. The Ideal Father and the HostPart 4: Extreme Letters, Extremes of Being11. Bombs and Ramparts12. "Cristo como hombre"13. Image, Vision, and Rapture14. "The soul isn't in possession of its senses, but it rejoices"15. A Clinical Lucidity16. The Minx and the Sage17. Better to Hide...?18. "... Or 'to do what lies within my power' "?19. From Hell to FoundationPart 5: From Ecstasy to Action20. The Great Tide21. Saint Joseph, the Virgin Mary, and His Majesty22. The Maternal Vocation23. Constituting Time24. Tutti a cavalloPart 6: Foundation–Persecution25. The Mystic and the Jester26. A Father Is Beaten to Death27. A Runaway Girl28. "Give me trials, Lord; give me persecutions"29. "With the ears of the soul"Part 7: Dialogues from Beyond the Grave30. Act I. Her Women31. Act II. Her Eliseus32. Act III: Her "Little Seneca"33. Act IV. The Analyst's FarewellPart 8: Postscript34. Letter to Denis Diderot on the Infinitesimal Subversion of a NunNotesSources

Teresa, My Love is written with force, drive, and a verbal agility that carries the reader off and turns the book into a page-turner.

Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 “for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature.”

• Abbreviations and ChronologyPart 1: The Nothingness of All Things1. Present by Default2. Mystical Seduction3. Dreaming, Music, Ocean4. Homo ViatorPart 2: Understanding Through Fiction5. Prayer, Writing, Politics6. How to Write Sensible Experience, or, of Water as the Fiction of Touch7. The Imaginary of an Unfindable Sense Curled Into a God Findable in MePart 3: The Wanderer8. Everything So Constrained Me9. Her Lovesickness10. The Ideal Father and the HostPart 4: Extreme Letters, Extremes of Being11. Bombs and Ramparts12. "Cristo como hombre"13. Image, Vision, and Rapture14. "The soul isn't in possession of its senses, but it rejoices"15. A Clinical Lucidity16. The Minx and the Sage17. Better to Hide...?18. "... Or 'to do what lies within my power' "?19. From Hell to FoundationPart 5: From Ecstasy to Action20. The Great Tide21. Saint Joseph, the Virgin Mary, and His Majesty22. The Maternal Vocation23. Constituting Time24. Tutti a cavalloPart 6: Foundation–Persecution25. The Mystic and the Jester26. A Father Is Beaten to Death27. A Runaway Girl28. "Give me trials, Lord; give me persecutions"29. "With the ears of the soul"Part 7: Dialogues from Beyond the Grave30. Act I. Her Women31. Act II. Her Eliseus32. Act III: Her "Little Seneca"33. Act IV. The Analyst's FarewellPart 8: Postscript34. Letter to Denis Diderot on the Infinitesimal Subversion of a NunNotesSources

Teresa, My Love is written with force, drive, and a verbal agility that carries the reader off and turns the book into a page-turner.

Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 “for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature.”

• Abbreviations and ChronologyPart 1: The Nothingness of All Things1. Present by Default2. Mystical Seduction3. Dreaming, Music, Ocean4. Homo ViatorPart 2: Understanding Through Fiction5. Prayer, Writing, Politics6. How to Write Sensible Experience, or, of Water as the Fiction of Touch7. The Imaginary of an Unfindable Sense Curled Into a God Findable in MePart 3: The Wanderer8. Everything So Constrained Me9. Her Lovesickness10. The Ideal Father and the HostPart 4: Extreme Letters, Extremes of Being11. Bombs and Ramparts12. "Cristo como hombre"13. Image, Vision, and Rapture14. "The soul isn't in possession of its senses, but it rejoices"15. A Clinical Lucidity16. The Minx and the Sage17. Better to Hide...?18. "... Or 'to do what lies within my power' "?19. From Hell to FoundationPart 5: From Ecstasy to Action20. The Great Tide21. Saint Joseph, the Virgin Mary, and His Majesty22. The Maternal Vocation23. Constituting Time24. Tutti a cavalloPart 6: Foundation–Persecution25. The Mystic and the Jester26. A Father Is Beaten to Death27. A Runaway Girl28. "Give me trials, Lord; give me persecutions"29. "With the ears of the soul"Part 7: Dialogues from Beyond the Grave30. Act I. Her Women31. Act II. Her Eliseus32. Act III: Her "Little Seneca"33. Act IV. The Analyst's FarewellPart 8: Postscript34. Letter to Denis Diderot on the Infinitesimal Subversion of a NunNotesSources

Teresa, My Love is written with force, drive, and a verbal agility that carries the reader off and turns the book into a page-turner.