Table of Contents

Preface vi

Acknowledgements viii

Introduction 1

I Linguistics, Semiotics, Textuality 23

1 The System and the Speaking Subject 24

2 Word, Dialogue and Novel 34

3 From Symbol to Sign 62

4 Semiotics: A Critical Science and/or a Critique of Science 74

5 Revolution in Poetic Language 89

II Women, Psychoanalysis. Politics 137

6 About Chinese Women 138

7 Stabat Mater 160

8 Women’s Time 187

9 The True-Real 214

10 Freud and Love: Treatment and Its Discontents 238

11 Why the United States? 272

12 A New Type of Intellectual: The Dissident 292

13 Psychoanalysis and the Polis 301

Index 321

About the Author

Toril Moi is Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at Bergen University

Reviews

"Toril Moi, with her usual exegetical lucidity, makes sense for us of the immensely difficult and varied aspects of Julia Kristeva's intellectual project, characterized by Moi as an attempt to 'think the unthinkable'." London Review of Books
"Excellently edited and introduced by Toril Moi." City Limits