CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

 

Introduction: Losing our Heads

1.  Kristeva and Benjamin: Melancholy and the Allegorical Imagination

2.  Kenotic Art: Negativity, Iconoclasm, Inscription

3.  To Be and Remain Foreign: Tarrying with L’Inquiétante Étrangeté Alongside Arendt and Kafka

4.  Sublimating Maman: Experience, Time, and the Re-erotization of Existence in Kristeva’s Reading of Marcel Proust

5.  The “Orestes Complex”: Thinking Hatred, Forgiveness, Greek Tragedy, and the Cinema of the “Thought Specular” with Hegel, Freud, and Klein

Conclusion: Forging a Head

Notes

Bibliography

Index