Julia Kristeva, internationally known psychoanalyst and critic, is Professor of Linguistics at the University de Paris VII. She has hosted a French television series and is the author of many critically acclaimed books published by Columbia University Press in translation, including Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience of Literature and the novel, Possessions.

• Part 1: Linguistics, Semiotics, Textuality 1. The System and the Speaking Subject 2. Word, Dialogue and Novel 3. From Symbol to Sign 4. Semiotics: A Critical Science and/or a Critique of Science 5. Revolution in Poetic Language Part 2: Women, Psychoanalysis, Politics 6. About Chinese Women 7. Stabat Mater 8. Women's Time 9. The True-Real 10. Freud and Love: Treatment and Its Discontents 11. Why the United States? 12. A New Type of Intellectual: The Dissident 13. Psychoanalysis and the Polis

Julia Kristeva, internationally known psychoanalyst and critic, is Professor of Linguistics at the University de Paris VII. She has hosted a French television series and is the author of many critically acclaimed books published by Columbia University Press in translation, including Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience of Literature and the novel, Possessions.

• Part 1: Linguistics, Semiotics, Textuality 1. The System and the Speaking Subject 2. Word, Dialogue and Novel 3. From Symbol to Sign 4. Semiotics: A Critical Science and/or a Critique of Science 5. Revolution in Poetic Language Part 2: Women, Psychoanalysis, Politics 6. About Chinese Women 7. Stabat Mater 8. Women's Time 9. The True-Real 10. Freud and Love: Treatment and Its Discontents 11. Why the United States? 12. A New Type of Intellectual: The Dissident 13. Psychoanalysis and the Polis

Julia Kristeva, internationally known psychoanalyst and critic, is Professor of Linguistics at the University de Paris VII. She has hosted a French television series and is the author of many critically acclaimed books published by Columbia University Press in translation, including Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience of Literature and the novel, Possessions.

• Part 1: Linguistics, Semiotics, Textuality 1. The System and the Speaking Subject 2. Word, Dialogue and Novel 3. From Symbol to Sign 4. Semiotics: A Critical Science and/or a Critique of Science 5. Revolution in Poetic Language Part 2: Women, Psychoanalysis, Politics 6. About Chinese Women 7. Stabat Mater 8. Women's Time 9. The True-Real 10. Freud and Love: Treatment and Its Discontents 11. Why the United States? 12. A New Type of Intellectual: The Dissident 13. Psychoanalysis and the Polis