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Julia Kristeva

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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
1941-06-24 1
Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account
1941 1
BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own account
Sliven, Bulgaria 1
Nationality / CultureSourced to the subject's own account
Bulgarian-French 1
Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own account
Distinguished 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 account
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (1982) 1
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  • lead section
    24 June 1941
  • Works section
  • lead section: birth date
    24 June 1941
  • lead section: birthplace
    Sliven, Kingdom of Bulgaria
  • lead section: nationality
    Bulgarian-French philosopher
  • lead section: contribution
    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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