Julia Kristeva -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Suffering: A Piece of the Reality that has Come to Grief -- The Tendential Severance of the Semiotic and Symbolic -- PART I: From the Revolutionary Standpoint to the Nihilism Problematic -- 1. The Early View of Psychoanalysis and Art -- Introduction -- The Lacanian Background -- Revolution in Poetic Language -- 2. Primary Narcissism -- The Appearance of the Nihilism Problematic -- Primary Idealization -- 3. Ab-jection -- Introduction -- The Phobic Object -- "Where Am I?" -- 4. Primal Loss -- Introduction -- Intolerance For Loss -- The Signifying Failure -- PART II: Religion and Art Kristeva's Minor Histories of Modernity -- 5. The Powers and Limitations of Religion -- Introduction -- Psychoanalysis and the Sacred -- Religious Codifications of Abjection -- 6. The Kristevan Aesthetic -- Introduction -- Holbein: "God is Dead" -- Duras: A New Suffering World -- A New Amatory World -- PART III: The Social and Political Implications of Kristeva's Thought -- 7. Ethics and Politics -- Introduction -- The Ethics of Psychoanalysis -- Nations Without Nationalism -- 8. Kristeva's Feminism -- Introduction -- "Woman" and "Nature" -- Kristeva or Butler? -- The Maternal Feminine -- CONCLUSION: Revolt Culture and Exemplary Lives -- NOTES -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.