Name: Possessions
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Author: Julia Kristeva

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Physical Book

Author

Julia Kristeva

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Year

1998

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

0231109989

ISBN13

9780231109987

Synopsis "Possessions "

This sequel to Kristeva's celebrated allegory The Old Man and the Wolves returns to the corrupt, seaside resort of a mythical town, where the boundaries between East and West, civilization and barbarism, and good and evil are erased.

Julia Kristeva

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She is a writer, psychoanalyst, member of the University Institute of France, and a professor at the University Diderot-Paris VII, where she heads the Doctoral School "Language, Literature, Image" and the Roland Barthes Center. She holds doctorates from numerous universities and is a member of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society. She is part of the Economic and Social Council of France and chairs the National Council "Disability: Awareness, Information, Training". In 2004, she received the Holberg Prize (Norway); and in 2006, the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought (Bremen). She has written about thirty books, novels, and essays, including Strangers to Ourselves (1988), The Samurai (1992), The Female Genius: Hannah Arendt, Vol. I (1999), Melanie Klein, Vol. II (2003), Colette: A Female Genius (2007).

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