"A lively exchange of letters... ranges widely over the place of women in monotheistic, traditional, and animistic religions." -- Alan Riding, The New York Times "Wise and passionate... [Clement and Kristeva's] mutual confidence makes them reveal each other with a fascinating percision." -- Le Monde
Catherine Clement is a prolific essayist and novelist. Her works in English include Opera, Or the Undoing of Women; The Newly Born Woman (with Helene Cixous); The Weary Sons of Freud; and The Lives and Legends of Jacques Lacan.Julia Kristeva, psychoanalyst and professor of linguistics at the University of Paris, is the author of many acclaimed books including Time and Sense, Strangers to Ourselves, The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt, and New Maladies of the Soul.