Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, semiotician, psychoanalyst, feminist and novelist who has lived and worked in France since the mid-1960s. Her theoretical writing spans literary theory, psychoanalysis and feminist thought, including influential work on abjection, love and melancholia developed across more than thirty books. She has taught at Columbia University and is professor emerita at Universite Paris Cite. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own account Nationality / CultureSourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountDistinguished the symbolic and the semiotic as two elements of signification, an influential contribution to psychoanalytic and literary theory distinct from Saussurean semiotics. 1 Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountPowers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (1982) 1 In the Other Atlases
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24 June 1941
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24 June 1941
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Sliven, Kingdom of Bulgaria
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Bulgarian-French philosopher
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One of Kristeva's most important contributions is that signification is composed of two elements, the symbolic and the semiotic, the latter being distinct from the discipline of semiotics founded by Ferdinand de Saussure.
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