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Aaron and Moses (Schönberg),
85
Adorno, Theodor,
29,
33,
43–44,
49,
54,
56,
71,
78–79,
94; aesthetic negativity and,
200n3; aesthetics of,
8; iconoclasm of,
58–59; images and,
75; Kafka and,
103–4,
108–11; nonidentical mimesis and,
17; surrealism and,
112.
See also specific works“Adorno and Benjamin, Photography and the Aura” (Nicholson),
206n144aesthetic negativity,
200n3aesthetics,
154; of Adorno,
8,
57–58; of Benjamin,
17,
34,
197n62; of Freud,
134; of Hegel,
18,
33,
54–56,
94,
113,
197n62; of Kant,
8,
88–89; of Lacan,
144; of Marx,
97–98; self-aestheticization,
179; of uncanny,
89,
113Aesthetic Theory (Adorno),
58
Agamemnon (Aeschylus),
171
allegory,
17,
26,
32,
38–42,
205n132; Benjamin and,
32,
35–38,
43–44,
205n132; contemporary art and,
42–45; figurism and,
69; imaginary and,
38,
151; melancholia and,
33–38Ambassadors, The (Holbein),
144
Arendt, Hannah,
18,
153,
212n150; art and,
116; body and,
118; estrangement and,
87,
115–16; forgiveness and,
19; imagination and,
153; Kant and,
12,
87–90,
115; Kristeva’s reappropriation of Kant and,
115–17; natality and,
5,
7,
78; thinking and,
12.
See also specific worksAugustine (saint),
8,
33; cosmopolitanism and,
91; natality and,
5; second birth and,
7,
19Ausstossung (rejection),
59
ban on images,
17–18,
54–55,
58–59,
63–66,
75,
85,
91,
111,
200n3,
202n33,
202n61,
211n108,
211n123beauty,
8,
22,
34,
45,
54,
140; contemporary art and,
46; Freud and,
39; love of,
89; sublime judgment of,
12Beaver, The (film),
14–15
Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, The (Caravaggio),
190
Being and Time (Heidegger),
125
Benjamin, Walter,
26,
28,
43–44,
54,
79,
86,
195n8,
197n62; allegory and,
17,
35,
37–38; Baudelaire and,
19,
36; experience and,
126; images and,
71–77; Kafka and,
103–11; materialism and,
37; melancholia and,
30; modernity and,
34; photography and,
14,
18,
71–77; poetic processes and,
129; spiritual inoculation and,
22,
31–33; symbols and,
205n132.
See also specific works“Berlin Childhood Around 1900” (Benjamin),
32Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Freud),
127,
129,
180
Bilderflucht (flight from images),
75
Black Skin, White Masks (Fanon),
28–29
Black Sun (Kristeva),
17,
21,
23–24,
26,
39,
150,
194n4; beauty and,
46; forgiveness and,
153,
165; Holbein and,
85; sublimation and,
148
“Bodies” (exhibition),
118body,
3,
32,
70,
80–81,
96,
98,
118–19; Adorno and,
43; Arendt and,
118; art and,
47,
50,
83–84,
117,
119–20,
126,
175; Christianity and,
68–69,
130; foreigner and,
95; Freud and,
134; Hegel and,
34,
97; humors,
11; illness and,
185,
187,
188; language and,
4,
24,
42,
62,
84,
102,
113,
127–28,
208n38; Marx and,
97–98; materialism and,
61–62; mother and,
43,
113; negation and,
57; neurosis and,
185; philosophy and,
95; pregancy and,
102,
186; transubstantiation and,
130Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb, The (Holbein),
40,
42
Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoevsky),
153
“Café Müller” (Bausch),
84capitalism,
164; industrial,
36“Cares of a Family Man, The” (Kafka),
108“Castration or Decapitation?” (Cixous),
4catharsis,
8; tragic,
176Céline (novelist),
26,
45“Central Park” (Benjamin),
35chiasmus of incarnation,
151Childhood of Art, The (Kofman),
137
children,
1–3,
29,
66,
124,
141–43,
170–71,
180–81; imaginary and,
7; language and,
23–24; paranoid-schizoid position and,
139; psychoanalysis of,
78; sexual drive and,
133chiropractic therapy,
187Christianity,
40–41,
55,
66,
69,
75,
156; Catholicism,
67,
130,
133; forgiveness and,
157–58,
162; maternity and,
102; medieval,
35cinema and film,
54,
72–73,
79,
109,
167; Adorno and,
58; language and,
77; thought spectacular and,
18,
174–76.
See also specific filmsCivilization and Its Discontents (Freud),
11,
28,
155,
162
cognitive psychology,
124Colette (French writer),
2–3collective unconscious,
104,
106commercial globalization,
92commercial photography,
73Communist Manifesto (Marx),
111
consciousness,
63,
99,
115; death drive and,
25; dialectic of,
61; forgiveness and,
158–61; image character of,
59; materialism and,
58; modern,
94; negation and,
60; origin of,
129; unconscious and,
13,
95,
98,
131–32,
169.
See also self-consciousnesscontemporary art,
8,
54,
71; allegory and,
42–45; beauty and,
46; examples of,
78–85; foreignness and,
88; iconoclasm and,
56–57; modernity and,
18; uncanny in,
18,
117–20; violent images and,
7Contre la dépression nationale (Kristeva),
28–29
Corte de Florero (Echavarría),
80
countertransference,
64,
138Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky),
153
Crisis of the (European) Subject (Kristeva),
67
Culture of Redemption, The (Bersani),
146
Dauthendey, Karl,
74,
107death,
118,
141; drive,
25,
31,
43,
51,
95,
122,
149–50; of God,
40–41; of Jesus Christ,
40–42; language as,
25; photography and,
74,
82; sublimation and,
148–50“Death and Literary Authority: Proust and Klein” (Bersani),
146depression,
1–2,
5,
8–11,
15–16,
42,
140,
184,
194n4; language and,
3,
21–24; national,
17,
28–31; negativity of,
26; social,
29; suicidal,
27.
See also melancholiaDevils, The (Dostoevsky),
153
dialectical materialism,
61“Dialogue with Julia Kristeva” (Kristeva),
195n24Divine Comedy (Dante),
77
“Doctrine of the Similar” (Benjamin),
74Dostoevsky, Fyodor,
39,
81,
113,
121,
220n56; death of Jesus Christ and,
40; depression and,
22; forgiveness and,
151,
153,
162,
165.
See also specific works
Echavarría, Juan Manuel,
80economy, of divine presence,
67–681844 Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (Marx),
97
Eléments de physiologie (Diderot),
95
Encyclopedia (Hegel),
200n1
Envy and Gratitude (Klein),
139
Erinnerung (recollection),
129
estrangement,
57,
76,
93,
115,
117; Arendt and,
115; art and,
110; Hegel and,
93,
96; Marx and,
97Exact Imagination, Late Work (Nicholson),
206n144
expressionist painting,
110eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR),
181–82
Fairy Queen (Purcell),
84
father,
3,
41; imaginary,
66–67,
138,
148,
166,
214n33; of individual prehistory,
66,
138,
143,
148–49Female Genius trilogy (Kristeva),
2,
115Feminine and the Sacred, The (Kristeva),
219n24
“Flower Vase Cut, The” (Echavarría),
80“Force and the Understanding” (Hegel),
158,
160foreignness,
18,
87–92,
114,
154,
173–74;
Entäusserung and,
97–103; irony and,
93–97; self-estrangement and,
93–97; uncanny and,
97–103; worrisome,
87For They Know Not What They Do (
Ži
žek),
48
fragmentation,
174; of temporality,
122“Franz Kafka: On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death” (Benjamin),
105Freud, Sigmund,
7,
119,
127,
167,
205n118; beauty and,
39; consciousness and,
129; cosmopolitanism and,
91; da Vinci and,
133–34; death drive and,
25,
51,
150; decapitation and,
3–4; dreams and,
180; father of individual prehistory and,
66,
138,
143; forgiveness and,
153–54,
162–64; judgment of existence and,
61; judgments of attribution and,
123; melancholia and,
10–11,
27–28,
34,
37; narcissism and,
147–50; negation and,
54,
57,
61–62,
90; prelinguistic bodily experiences and,
60; rejection and,
59; sublimation and,
39,
51,
135–37,
140,
142–45,
150; uncanny and,
2,
89–90,
101,
108; unconscious and,
13,
53,
78,
99,
102; war and,
30.
See also psychoanalysis;
specific works“Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis, The” (Lacan),
80Future of an Illusion, The (Freud),
154
General Introduction to Psychoanalysis, A (Freud),
136
German tragic drama,
30,
38globalization, commercial,
92Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,
35,
104–5Goux, Jean-Joseph,
65,
79Greuze, Jean-Baptiste,
70
habitual distracted perception,
195n8Hannah Arendt: Action as Birth and Estrangement (Kristeva),
115
Hatred and Forgiveness (Kristeva),
153,
164
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,
33,
53,
59,
93–96,
112–14,
197n62,
200n1; aesthetics and,
18,
54–56; allegory and,
37; death of Jesus Christ and,
41–42; desire and,
172;
Entäusserung and,
97–103; forgiveness and,
19,
153–54,
156,
157–61; melancholia and,
34; mourning and,
17; negativity and,
57,
61,
63; romanticism and,
34; self-consciousness and,
114; tragedy and,
167,
169.
See also specific worksHerder, Johann Gottfried,
53Hitchcock, Alfred,
85,
174Holocaust Memorial (Whiteread),
50Human Condition, The (Arendt),
115–16
humanization, of nature,
155hyperbolic productivity,
9
Idiot, The (Dostoevsky),
40,
153
images,
5–8,
14; abstract meaning and,
35; Benjamin and,
71–77; dialectical,
104; divine,
75; dream,
60,
104,
107,
112–13; epistemology and,
58; of Jesus Christ,
67–69; of Virgin Mary,
67–68; wish,
106.
See also graven images;
photographyindustrial capitalism,
36Inferno/Paradiso (Kristeva),
7,
77–78
In Search of Lost Time (Proust),
18,
32,
122,
135,
146,
148; experience and,
125; spectacle and,
6; sublimation and,
131
intellectual judgment,
60,
62
judgment,
105; aesthetic,
45,
115; of attribution,
60,
123; of existence,
61; intellectual,
60,
62; linguistic,
61; political,
89; somatic,
61; sublime,
12; of taste,
89Julia Kristeva: Readings of Exile and Estrangement (Smith),
97
Kant, Immanuel,
53,
154,
158–59,
163–64,
194n68,
204n98; aesthetic idea and,
6,
18,
78; aesthetic judgment and,
45,
115; Arendt and,
12,
87–90,
115; morality and,
94; reappropriation of,
115–17; sublime and,
100.
See also specific workskenosis (self-emptying),
68Klein, Melanie,
3,
17,
19,
23,
139–40,
142–43,
170,
172–73,
195n11; depressive position and,
3,
17,
154; forgiveness and,
153–54; Greek tragedy and,
170–73; narration and,
123; protophantasy and,
124; psychoanalysis and,
23,
123,
139; thought phantasy and,
125Krauss, Rosalind,
50,
109
Lacan, Jacques,
2,
4–5,
7,
80–81,
124,
138,
185; language and,
2; psychoanalysis and,
49; sublimation and,
144–46,
147; symbolic order and,
138language,
127,
149–51,
161,
195n24,
208n38; aesthetic idea and,
6; allegory and,
39; appropriation of,
2; asymbolia,
10,
14,
22,
25,
27,
32,
37; depression and,
3,
21–24; of forgiveness,
154; negativity of,
94; poetic,
15,
24–25,
62–63,
65,
99,
203n71; of radical modern art,
44; rapportive,
128; revolt and,
5; self and,
100; semiotic,
25,
65,
99,
101,
146; shared,
162; symbolic,
25,
51; thought phantasy and,
125; visual,
77; word flesh,
102Language: The Unknown (Kristeva),
77
Lars and the Real Girl (film),
14–15
Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy (Arendt),
88
Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion (Hegel),
41
lekton (expressible),
174
“Lick and Lather” (Antoni),
119l’inquiétante étrangeté (worrisome foreignness),
87.
See also uncanny literary narration,
123
“Little History of Photography” (Benjamin),
77,
106,
206n144“Louise Bourgeois” (Kristeva),
87love,
66–67,
83,
92,
150; of beauty,
89; courtly,
145; experience and,
126; forgiveness and,
166; hate and,
129,
139; Hegel and,
157; maternal,
102–3,
125; narcissism and,
148loving identification,
66–67
mandylion of Abgar,
68–69master/slave dialectic,
160materialism,
37,
58–59; demythologization of,
75; dialectical,
61meaning: abstract,
35; generation of,
63; of mimesis,
64; negativity and,
52; resuscitation of,
37; symbolic,
46; systems of,
57; transfer of,
40medieval Christianity,
35melancholia,
10–11,
17–18,
21,
23,
185,
186,
194n4,
199n117; allegory and,
33–38; contemporary art and,
42–43; death drive and,
51; intellectual thought and,
24; modernity and,
33–38; mourning and,
27–28; national depression and,
28–31; perpetual transience and,
92; as protest,
39; spiritual inoculation and,
31–33; therapeutic treatments of,
26mémoire d’intelligence,
129
memory,
16,
47,
85,
125,
142; consecrated,
49; imagination and,
22,
50; involuntary,
78–79,
104,
126,
129,
132,
151; pace of,
123; photography and,
77; repressed,
63,
116,
130“Memory/Loss” (Wilson),
47Men in Dark Times (Arendt),
153
mimesis,
6,
18,
58,
69,
75,
85,
111; iconography and,
68; meaning of,
64; nonidentical,
17,
54,
79; poetic,
70Minima Moralia (Adorno),
29
Mondzain, Marie-José,
67,
68,
71Monument Against Fascism and War for Peace (Gerz, J. and Gerz, E. S.),
48mother,
64–68,
113,
125,
168,
195n11; body and,
118–19; Christianity and,
102; dream image of,
60; loss of,
13,
23–24,
27,
40,
92,
144,
186; narcissism and,
137–38,
147–48; separation from,
2–3,
17“Motherhood According to Giovanni Bellini” (Kristeva),
42mourning,
10,
17,
26,
31,
34,
196n46; cultural,
47; Holocaust and,
32; melancholia and,
27–28; social dimension of,
33“Mourning and Melancholia” (Freud),
11,
27,
39
Nations Without Nationalism (Kristeva),
96
nature,
43; humanization of,
155; primal phenomena in,
105negation,
39,
40,
54,
57,
59–63,
65,
67,
74,
79,
90,
114,
123,
141,
143; double,
60,
62; photography and,
74“Negation” (Freud),
59–61Negative Dialectics (Adorno),
58
negativity,
17–18,
26,
31,
34,
52–54,
114,
155–56; Adorno and,
57,
59,
200n3; aesthetic,
101,
200n3; cutting edge of,
98; of depression,
26; foreignness and,
91–92; Hegel and,
57,
59,
61,
63,
154,
156; iconoclasm and,
54; Kafka and,
114; of language,
94–95; meaning and,
52; poetic language and,
62–63nonidentical mimesis,
17,
54,
79nonreferential thought,
146nonrepresentational art,
44,
59
Odradek (fictional character),
108Oedipodeia (Aeschylus),
168
“O Let Me Weep, For Ever Weep” (Purcell),
84One Hundred Spaces (Whiteread),
50
“On Narcissism” (Freud),
136,
147“On Redemption” (Nietzsche),
185“On the Concept of History” (Benjamin),
107“On Transience” (Freud),
39originary sublimation,
147
paranoid-schizoid position,
139,
154pardonner (to forgive),
19
“Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century” (Benjamin),
106Persian Letters (Montesquieu),
93
Philosophy of Right (Hegel),
97
photography,
13–14,
18,
54,
77–79,
86,
103,
205n118; Benjamin and,
14,
18,
71–77; death and,
74,
82; Kafka and,
103–11; surrealism and,
111–13Possessions (Kristeva),
224n18
Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis, The (Kristeva),
148
prelinguistic bodily experiences,
60prose of human condition,
33protest, melancholia as,
39Proust, Marcel,
5–7,
18–19,
32–33,
45,
113; experience and,
124–30; forgiveness and,
151,
153; involuntary memory and,
79; psychoanalysis and,
122–24; Segal and,
140; sublimation and,
121,
131–33,
146,
148; writing and,
144.
See also specific works“Proust, or the Power of Sublimation” (Kristeva),
130psychoanalysis,
19–20,
30,
78,
115–16,
134,
141,
174; allegory and,
32; desire and,
167; emergence of,
53; ethics of,
90,
144; father of individual prehistory and,
66; forgiveness and,
154,
162; imaginary and,
5; Klein and,
23,
123; Lacanian,
49; literature,
3,
11;
Nachträglichkeit and,
14; negative expression and,
54; prelinguistic bodily experiences and,
60; Proust and,
122–24; sacrifice and,
64; short sessions of,
80–81; talking cure,
21,
25,
179.
See also unconsciouspsychology,
155; cognitive,
124purification rites,
63–64
“Recommendations to Physicians Practising Psycho-analysis” (Freud),
135re-erotization,
42,
121,
135,
199n119; of affect,
45; of creative drive,
19; of psychic life,
31; spiritual inoculation and,
45; sublimation and,
144–48,
162; of suffering,
43; of symbolic structures,
25Reflecting Absence (memorial),
16
Revolt, She Said (Kristeva),
9,
21,
28
Roman Catholic Church,
67
Sandman, The (Hoffman),
154
Sartre, Jean-Paul,
59,
173Schlegel, August Wilhelm,
208n32second-degree thetic,
24,
51Selbstanfang (self-beginning),
163–64
self-aestheticization,
179“Self-Care of Physicians Caring for Patients at the End of Life” (Kearney et al.),
187self-consciousness,
27,
156,
160,
172; death of Jesus Christ and,
41; negativity and,
114; photography and,
74; unconscious and,
54semiotic dimension of language,
3,
25,
38,
43,
45–46,
51,
53,
59,
62,
64–67,
70–71,
79–84,
94–96,
99,
101–3,
120,
127,
146,
149,
165,
175,
188Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt, The (Kristeva),
46,
51
Severed Head, The (Kristeva),
1,
7,
18,
23,
53,
87,
183,
186,
188; decapitation and,
2; iconoclasm and,
67–68
“Sexuality and Aesthetics” (Bersani),
145skariphasthai (to scratch an outline),
80
social contract theory,
162–63society of the spectacle,
5–6“Spirit in Self-Estrangement” (Hegel),
93“Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate, The” (Hegel),
156,
157,
162“Stabat Mater” (Kristeva),
102Stranded Objects (Santner),
32
structural anthropology,
64sublimation,
8,
18,
39,
51,
121–22,
124,
130–33,
135–44; death and,
148–50; ego formation and,
136; history of concept,
133–35; love and,
150; neurosis and,
135–36; re-erotization and,
144–48,
162“Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia” (Benjamin),
111symbolic language,
25,
51symbolic order,
4,
25,
40,
50,
62,
66–67,
100–101,
124,
133,
138–39,
150,
162,
192n9
temporality,
7,
47,
50,
104,
133,
180; fragmentation of,
122; imaginary and,
151–52; of mass production,
36; nonlinear,
22; of photography,
13,
71,
73–77,
79,
103–7; of Proust,
19; of symbol,
35; tragic,
179–80This Incredible Need to Believe (Kristeva),
153
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (Freud),
134
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Nietzsche),
183
Time Regained (Proust),
121
Topiary IV (Bourgeois),
189–90
transitional objects,
14–15Trauerspiel (Benjamin),
26,
35,
37
uncanny,
2,
45,
87–90,
108,
154–55; in contemporary art,
18,
117–20; foreignness and,
97–103; politics of,
92; surrealism and,
113“Uncanny, The” (Freud),
119unconscious,
18,
52–53,
57,
63,
71,
85,
87,
99,
102,
119,
200n1; collective,
104,
106; consciousness and,
13,
95,
98,
131–32,
169; discovery of,
61,
91,
154; dream images and,
113; foreignness and,
90; identification,
27; nonlinear temporality and,
22; optical,
72–73,
77,
103,
109; photography and,
73–75,
78,
205n118; renewal of,
166; rhythm and,
83; self-consciousness and,
54; timelessness of,
164University of Vienna,
136Untitled Film Stills (Sherman),
148
Urgeschichte (primal history),
104–7
Venice Biennale (1993),
46,
47Verwerfung (foreclosure),
59
“Waste Land, The” (Eliot),
47Winnicott, D. W.,
14,
143word presentation,
99,
130“Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, The” (Benjamin),
73,
195n8,
205n123Work of the Negative, The (Green),
140
World Trade Center,
9,
16Worstward Ho (Beckett),
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