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Dimensions of unintentionality: Jan Mukařovský — Julia Kristeva — Georges didi-Huberman. --- This article focuses on the concepts of intentionality and unintentionality introduced into the semiotics of the Prague Structural School by Jan Mukařovský. These terms are considered in the context of two other conceptual pairs: 1) the semiotic (lesémiotique) and the symbolic (le symbolique) by Julia Kristeva; and 2) the visual (le visuel) and the visible (le visible) by Georges Didi-Huberman. These concepts, created on the basis of French humanities, can be treated as a development on and complement to Mukařovský’s aesthetic theory.

The document titled "Kristevan Affect in Connie Willis' Passage" is an article published in the Forum for World Literature Studies. The article explores the concept of Kristevan affect in Connie Willis' novel "Passage." It discusses how the novel manifests this affect and its significance within the context of literature studies. The article also references other works such as "Lincoln's Dreams" and "All Clear," as well as the book "The Portable Kristeva." The article provides a valuable resource for those interested in the intersection of literature and affect theory. [Extracted from the article]

Samuel Beckett as a dramatist is well-known with his contributions to the landscape of British theatre. His plays reverberate with voices of traumatized, marginalized and war-stricken characters, which function as an implicit criticism of the turbulent atmosphere of the 1900s. When Beckett addresses the problems of his time in a covert way, the playwright deconstructs conventional elements of drama by specifying no plot, no setting or no theme. This Beckettian style also becomes manifest in his use of language which is characterized by the presence of segmented structures, pauses, ellipses and even silence. Considering these tenets of Beckettian drama, the thematic concerns of his theatrical productions are assumed to primarily revolve around the issues of nihilism, language, and ontology. Therefore, Beckett's plays are thought to be read through the lenses of distinguished theorists such as Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Jacques Lacan and Julia Kristeva. From among these theorists, the concepts of the semiotic, the symbolic and the semiotic chora of Julia Kristeva as a poststructuralist thinker provide a fertile ground for a theoretical reading of Beckett's play Not I (1972). Relevantly, this paper principally examines the applicability of Kristeva's "semiotic chora" into Beckett's Not I in all aspects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the concepts of intentionality and unintentionality introduced into the semiotics of the Prague Structural School by Jan Mukařovský. These terms are considered in the context of two other conceptual pairs: 1) the semiotic (le sémiotique) and the symbolic (le symbolique) by Julia Kristeva; and 2) the visual (le visuel) and the visible (le visible) by Georges Didi-Huberman. These concepts, created on the basis of French humanities, can be treated as a development on and complement to Mukařovský's aesthetic theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Representations of Christianity in contemporary Chinese cinema are very limited, making the scholarship of this subject underexplored. Filmmaker Gan Xiao'er has made three feature-length independent films focusing on Christianity in China. These films, The Only Sons (2003), Raised from Dust (2007), and Waiting for God (2012), are used for case studies, with close analyses of their narratives and formal elements. They are also examined in the social and cultural contexts of postsocialist China. This article argues that Gan's religious features are significant in the context of postsocialist Chinese cinema. They not only depict the religious experience of Chinese Christians, which has been under-represented cinematically, but also provide a religious critique rarely seen in Chinese films. On the one hand, these films critically engage with the experience of underprivileged people during the Reform period, when economic development and materialism became dominant, while the socialist political system remained. Gan's religious features provide an alternative perspective that cares for people's spiritual needs. On the other hand, Gan's later films interrogate the local religious institution in China, questioning the arbitrary separation of the 'holy' and the 'unholy', proposing a more inclusive approach to the religious concept of love. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The primary aim of this article is to think through how silence can be considered as generating meaning in literary prose. For this purpose, the article focuses on Zimbabwean author Yvonne Vera's last novel, The Stone Virgins (2002a), which has often been described as 'breaking the silence' about the genocidal violence remembered as Gukurahundi. As a secondary aim, the article sets out to rethink Vera's idea and argues that rather than 'breaking' the silence, her novel explores different forms of silence, some of which are necessary for healing and regeneration. However, silence is not just a theme or motif in the novel: Vera also uses silence in her own writing to generate new meaning. Using an essay by Elleke Boehmer as a point of departure, this article proposes a conceptualisation of silence through two terms: the unsayable and the unsaid, where the former refers to meaning that is suppressed and the latter to that which has not yet been said. It argues that the novel presents a poetics that aligns with its theme of meaning, generative silence, which uses opaque and imprecise syntax and referentiality in a way that maximises the possibility of the unsaid to be said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wśród humanistów reprezentujących szeroko pojęty nurt postmodernistyczny można dostrzec postawę uznania względem fenomenu religii. Do grona pozytywnie nastawionych do religii autorów postracjonalnych należy Julia Kristeva, francusko-bułgarska psychoanalityczka, filozofka i literaturoznawczyni. Jej nieskrywany szacunek do treści, które niesie religia chrześcijańska, wzbudza niekiedy zachwyt także wśród wierzących. Rodzi się nawet obustronne oczekiwanie, że pod wpływem jej prac pojawić się może przestrzeń do budowy nowego świata, wolnego od wszelkich barier i niezrozumienia, a nawet nadzieja na odnowienie chrześcijaństwa. Niestety, po głębszej analizie myśli francuskiej humanistki trudno jest podzielać podobne oczekiwanie. Jej idealistyczna i redukcjonistyczna filozofia nie jest w stanie oddać w pełni chrześcijańskiego przesłania, co oznacza, iż dialog w szerszym wymiarze staje pod znakiem zapytania. W artykule omówiono podstawy jej psychoanalitycznej myśli, jak również dokonano analizy niektórych terminów interpretowanych przez nią, zaczerpniętych z religii chrześcijańskiej. Z przeprowadzonych badań wynika, iż Kristeva nie wychodzi poza ramy psychoanalizy, co powoduje, że stosowane przez nią pojęcia pozornie tylko odpowiadają terminom chrześcijańskim. Dla niej religia jest niczym więcej, jak tylko pewną formą lekarstwa w określonych sytuacjach, co bez wątpienia deprecjonuje chrześcijańskie orędzie.

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Kristeva has a close relationship with China. Not only has she obtained a degree in Chinese and been active in the "China Period" of Tel Quel, but she has also focused on the Chinese language, thought, and culture in both her academic research and her literary work. Kristeva's early concern with Chinese primarily revolved around linguistics and semiotics. Influenced by the Chinese language, she proposed theories such as "logique poétique" and "le paragramme semiology." After the 1970s, Kristeva began to introduce psychoanalytic and feminist perspectives into her research, focusing on understanding the Chinese language from the standpoint of Chinese thought, culture, and historical traditions and considering Chinese as a "tonal language." Since the 1990s and especially in the 21st century, Kristeva further explored the potential for dialogue between Chinese and European cultures within the context of their "encounter." Thus, Kristeva's fascination with the Chinese language has become a prominent case of Western practice in the mutual learning between Chinese and Western literary theories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to reflect on some of the texts by the Bulgarian-French psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva, trying to engage with them from the point of view of theology. Some of the thinker's writings are presented here, but also traces of her biography that are intertwined with the proposed theme. The intention is to see how a dialogue with her thought can fertilize theology and open new perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Exploring the intersection of Gothic Medicine and Graphic Medicine in Ian William's graphic novel, The Bad Doctor, this article discusses the ways in which gothic aesthetics, particularly representations of the abject encounter, contribute to an understanding of mental illness whilst also interrogating dominant paradigms within medical discourse. Further, this study suggests that the gothic aspects of comics as a medium contribute to the effectiveness of Gothic Medicine as a genre by offering insight into visual and verbal representations of the body. Detailed close readings indicate that Williams's work draws a parallel between the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder on an individual level and the hostility toward the Gothic that formed a cornerstone in the foundation of modern medicine as a discipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The lecture examines aspects of the political, intellectual, and artistic contexts which triggered Julia Kristeva’s lifelong theoretical exploration of the “psychic revolution of matter” and which led to the formation of some of Kristeva’s major concepts. Author(s): Miglena Nikolchina Title (English): Survival of the Human in the Flux of Language (Transcript of a lecture given as part of the School of Materialist Research - Intensive Study Program) Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 20, No. 1-2 (2023). Publisher: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje Page Range: 116-127 Page Count: 12 Citation (English): Miglena Nikolchina, "Survival of the Human in the Flux of Language (Transcript of a lecture given as part of the School of Materialist Research - Intensive Study Program),” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 20, No. 1-2 (2023): 116-127.

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Three Souls by Janie Chang focuses on a changing transformative time in China's history--the 1930s. During this period, China was experiencing political and societal shifts that prompted gender equality movements. Song Leiyin, the female protagonist in Three Souls, embodies the experiences of women during this period. She is an ambitious and desiring woman who lives in a family and society that restricts women's roles and abilities. As a woman with aspirations and desires, Song Leiyin is perceived as a threat to traditional values and paternal authority. In her journey towards reclaiming her subjectivity, Song Leiyin encounters many obstacles that force her to confront and challenge the patriarchal structures that oppress her. Despite the challenges, Song Leiyin manages to break free from the patriarchal constraints by reconnecting with her maternal drives. Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection provides an analytical framework to explore the ways in which Leiyin experiences abjection and the consequences of confronting her abject desires. While commonly associated with the abject, this study argues that the maternal can be a site of resistance and empowerment. By embracing the maternal abject, women can assert their agency and break free from oppressive norms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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When Holocaust survivor Anna Langfus (1920–1966) left Poland for France in 1946, she broke all ties with her home country. French became her language of choice for the three novels she published between 1960 and 1965, and she never used Polish at home nor taught it to her only daughter. Yet, in a contribution to a volume on Chopin published a few months before her death, she had the famous composer cry out: 'I do not want to die in this country. [...] No, not here. But at home, in my home, the only home I ever owned, my parents' home. A home I shall never see again; a country I have abandoned.' Drawing on the work of Julia Kristeva (abjection) and Dominick LaCapra (empathic unsettlement) I explore representations of exile in Langfus's fiction in three respects: the incommunicability of the Shoah and the ensuing exilic condition of the Holocaust survivor (exile from others); the fragmentation/dislocation of the narrator's body as expression of the survivor's existential anguish (exile from self); the fleeting solace offered by creative fiction and the connection established with readers (suspension of exile). Throughout this discussion, I will be guided by the motif of the fog, which features strongly in Langfus's Chopin text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Representations of Christianity in contemporary Chinese cinema are very limited, making the scholarship of this subject underexplored. Filmmaker Gan Xiao’er has made three feature-length independent films focusing on Christianity in China. These films, The Only Sons (2003), Raised from Dust (2007), and Waiting for God (2012), are used for case studies, with close analyses of their narratives and formal elements. They are also examined in the social and cultural contexts of postsocialist China. This article argues that Gan’s religious features are significant in the context of postsocialist Chinese cinema. They not only depict the religious experience of Chinese Christians, which has been under-represented cinematically, but also provide a religious critique rarely seen in Chinese films. On the one hand, these films critically engage with the experience of underprivileged people during the Reform period, when economic development and materialism became dominant, while the socialist political system remained. Gan’s religious features provide an alternative perspective that cares for people’s spiritual needs. On the other hand, Gan’s later films interrogate the local religious institution in China, questioning the arbitrary separation of the ‘holy’ and the ‘unholy’, proposing a more inclusive approach to the religious concept of love.

In the words of Gertrude Stein: "Composition is the difference." Tender Buttons, her poetry collection published in 1914, is one of the most compositionally daring and misunderstood works within the modernist canon. Stein's composition brings into existence a way of seeing words: she forms her own use of language, both interpreting the rules of grammar and showing clear linguistic choices. In Tender Buttons, the word becomes the microcosm for larger philosophical issues embedded within language: identity, the body, being and knowing, and power. My thesis will closely observe how Stein's poems lend themselves to productive dialogs and/or cross fertilization with the linguistic theories of 20th century language philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, and Valentin Voloshinov. In placing Stein in conversation with these philosophers, I hope to draw Stein in closer proximity to popular language theory and introduce new lenses to help perceive her work. More importantly, I hope to show how uniquely Stein challenges and pushes the boundaries of language, demonstrating to her readers the practice of choice and intent in the language of the everyday.

This article details the deconstruction of social identity in Mark Gevisser's memoir Lost and Found in Johannesburg. It does so by emphasising how the city's design reflects racial and sexual segregation through the construction of borders and boundaries that are nonetheless nebulous and artificial. In Gevisser's memoir, his recollections are interspersed with the narratives of other marginalised individuals and groups. I employ Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection to understand how systems of exclusion function not only to exclude, but paradoxically, how they allow spaces of inclusion. I argue that the apartheid city can be read as a social body that can be analysed in a similar manner to how the individual subject distinguishes itself from others. The social body therefore creates subjective boundaries between racialised and sexualised others to maintain its sense of autonomy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study deals with the Hong Kong poet Mary Jean Chan's poem “The mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter” within the framework of the failing matricide and feminine psychology. The poem provides autobiographical details about the author who produced the text to seek reconciliation with her mother that became estranged from the daughter due to her queer identity. The narrative thus deals with the problematic relationship and conflict between mother and daughter that has been going on for years. In this respect, the present study argues that the implied author is unable to build a coherent subjectivity due to the repeated acts of the failing matricide and might be said to experience a lack, rather than a loss, of the maternal object and image. Defining herself as an object of the mother, the implied author aims to recreate and reclaim the mother she fails to kill in the symbolic through the words in the semiotic, and thus hopes to build a subjectivity while indirectly mourning for the ideal mother she believes she deserves. The semiotic and the poetic discourse provide a maternal realm for the depressed subject, and through the textual production, the implied author tries to gain the affection and love of the mother in a neurotic way. The study is based on Horney's theory regarding feminine psychology and Kristevian concepts of matricide and melancholy. Within this context, overidentification with or inability to identify with the maternal figure might end up with the failing matricide. The implied author therefore experiences neurotic feelings of guilt due to her queer identity and bears an ontological resentment towards the mother since she fails to overcome the maternal figure through matricide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Julia Kristeva’nın psikanalitik kuramında abjeksiyon, yalnızca bedenin bilinç ve bilinçdışı ile etkileşimlerini ortaya koymak ile kalmaz; aynı zamanda beden imgelemi üzerindeki patriarkal tahakkümü de ifşa eder. Kristeva, abjeksiyonu fenomenolojik bir süje olarak kullanır ve onun deneyimler üzerindeki etkilerini post-feminist bir perspektiften inceler. Ona göre patriarkal tahakküm altında beliren deneyimler, tıpkı bedenin “atıkları” gibi maddi varoluş içerisinde sönümlenen, bayağı ve ötekileştirilmiş devinimlerdir. Bu çalışmada Julia Kristeva’nın abjeksiyon kuramından yararlanılarak bedenin pre-modern ve modern düşünce tarihi içerisindeki ikincil konumuna eleştiri getirilmesi ve beden imgelemi üzerindeki patriarkal tahakkümün yapıbozumuna uğratılması amaçlanmıştır. Bunun için çalışmanın ilk bölümünde bedenin Antikiteden modern sosyal kurama kadarki yolculuğu kronolojik bir perspektiften ele alınmış ve Immanuel Kant, Emile Durkheim gibi düşünürlere odaklanılarak tartışılmış; ikinci bölümünde psikanalistler Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler ve Jacques Lacan’ın öğretilerindeki beden ve psikoz ilişkisi açıklanmıştır. Üçüncü bölümde ise Kristeva’nın abjeksiyon kuramı açıklanmış, abjeksiyonun patriarkal inşası incelenmiştir. Çalışma ile bedeni patriarkal abjeksiyon içerisinden kurtarmanın feminist literatür yönünden geçerliliğini koruyan bir gereklilik olduğu sonucuna varılmıştır.

In her work, Julia Kristeva uses two disparate concepts: revolution and revolt. In this article we will try to outline these concepts as different approaches to the relations between power, art and psychoanalysis. By placing the concepts of revolt and revolution in dialogue with each other, and by pointing out that the dialogue departs from the notion of experience, we will attempt to reconstruct the important contribution that Kristeva's work offers. Her perspective reveals that artistic expression is linked to a specific kind of politics (dissolved politics). Kristeva's view of literary and psychoanalytic practice is then, we argue, something that can contribute to its realisation, albeit in a limited way.

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The juxtaposition of dream narratives from Spanish surrealist writer José María Hinojosa's La flor de Californía (1928) and artist Joaquín Peinado's four drawings found interspersed throughout the collection demonstrates a symbiotic relationship between the artist and writer's creative purposes, in true surrealist fashion creating an "image-text." Thus, the present article argues that Peinado's drawings represent a key element for understanding La flor de Californía and should be considered an integral part of the dream texts. Julia Kristeva's ideas on signification and the interplay of the symbolic and the semiotic orders present in poetic creation prove useful in understanding this interplay of image and word. Hinojosa's texts, along with Peinado's drawings, attempt to re-create this process of signification, in which the text, although tied down by the symbolic order—that is, systems and realism—, constantly pushes to evade logic and allow the semiotic to emerge through genotexts. Hinojosa and Peinado's combined creation of drawings and writings are examples of one such attempt to obliterate the social constraints of the symbolic order and allow the reader/viewer to witness indirectly the semiotic processes of the pre-Oedipal phase. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is barely a field of academic research not subject to crisis claims. Many urban crises span careers and take significant emotional tolls. This is not due to a lack of effort. Academic productivity, as it is typically measured, is rapidly increasing and success claims commonplace. This article reflects critically upon the science-policy interface and interprets the work of Julia Kristeva to discuss the importance of creating "tiny revolts" able to rescale and reframe inquiry, and to problematise success. I argue these revolts hold potential in sustaining ourselves and others, as well as in creating new acts of critical thinking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The US war story is conventionally one of nation and of masculinity. Literary fiction and nonfiction by US women writers who address the war on terror and focus on women serving in the military have problematized this paradigm. Given the high number of women who joined the US military to serve in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, texts such as Love my Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army by Kayla Williams (2006), Flashes of War by Katey Schultz (2013), Shade It Black : Death and After in Iraq by Jessica Goodell (2013), and Sand Queen by Helen Benedict (2011) highlight the challenges the US female soldier encounters not only on the battlefield, but also in being accepted by her male peers because she is a woman performing a masculine job. Benedict's Sand Queen adds a twist to this still emerging literary tradition by portraying the sexually harassed US female soldier Kate Brady concurrent with the Iraqi viewpoint of the civilian, a Muslim woman named Naema al-Jubur. In this essay, I propose an archipelagic theoretical framework to examine the war on terror as it is portrayed from the perspective of the sexually harassed US female soldier and the civilian Iraqi woman, while paying close attention to the main setting of the story, Camp De Bucca. I examine the characters of Kate and Naema in light of Julia Kristeva's feminist theory of the "abject" and Giorgio Agamben's analysis of political violence, specifically his definition of the "sovereign sphere." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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18th-century poet and novelist Mary Julia Young was a prolific writer supporting herself by writing. She remained a biographically obscure literary figure, yet her remarkable life with the experience of anxiety drew attention through her poetic discourse and narrative. Hence, having earned her living from literature, Young had to stick to the demands of the era's literary fashions. Therefore, this paper investigates the clues and signs of the author's real experience and analyses Young's sonnet "Anxiety" in terms of the representation of the neurotic mind and anxiety. The paper categorizes the type of anxiety and the subjective experience of the poetic persona as mood and disorder. The study suggests that the implied author experiences neurosis as character neurosis whereas the historical author suffers from situational neurosis. The authorial persona is afflicted with basic anxiety as the implied author and with simple anxiety as the historical author and anxiety of authorship as a female writer. The conflict between the historical author's external dilemma and the implied author's internal dilemma leads to a profound inhibition against the very act of creating, and thus, the persona ends the poem at its peak of anxiety. Considering Young as a female writer who struggled against hardships in a literary world getting more commercial each day, the paper, using the terminology of Karen Horney and Julia Kristeva, argues that the anxious mood of the poet is represented through the discourse of the poetic persona, who not only reveals her anxiety and neurosis but also the problems of the poet herself.

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At first glance, the Netflix series Stranger Things places itself within the category of monstrous feminine narratives by introducing preteen Eleven as the series' human monster. The show pits her against literal monsters which, like adolescents, exist in a physically transformative and liminal space. However, while the series initially appears to reinforce the stereotype of young females as borderland monsters who defy categorization, the show ultimately undermines this same convention. Instead, it presents Eleven as a complete person who exhibits intelligence, individuality, and power in a manner more complex and modern than earlier filmic embodiments of monstrous adolescence and femininity. Eleven represents a new generation; while the monsters can still be viewed as illustrative of adolescence, Eleven rises above the characterizations of previous horror texts, successfully defying the containment often placed on girls. Viewers are shown that rather than letting society dictate their actions, girls can perform with agency and ability. Instead of serving only as objects of desire (or angst) for boys, girls can be the ones to save the day. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]