Toril Moi is Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at Bergen University

"Toril Moi, with her usual exegetical lucidity, makes sense for us of the immensely difficult and varied aspects of Julia Kristeva's intellectual project, characterized by Moi as an attempt to 'think the unthinkable'." London Review of Books"Excellently edited and introduced by Toril Moi." City Limits

• Preface viAcknowledgements viiiIntroduction 1I Linguistics, Semiotics, Textuality 231 The System and the Speaking Subject 242 Word, Dialogue and Novel 343 From Symbol to Sign 624 Semiotics: A Critical Science and/or a Critique of Science 745 Revolution in Poetic Language 89II Women, Psychoanalysis. Politics 1376 About Chinese Women 1387 Stabat Mater 1608 Women’s Time 1879 The True-Real 21410 Freud and Love: Treatment and Its Discontents 23811 Why the United States? 27212 A New Type of Intellectual: The Dissident 29213 Psychoanalysis and the Polis 301Index 321

Toril Moi is Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at Bergen University

"Toril Moi, with her usual exegetical lucidity, makes sense for us of the immensely difficult and varied aspects of Julia Kristeva's intellectual project, characterized by Moi as an attempt to 'think the unthinkable'." London Review of Books"Excellently edited and introduced by Toril Moi." City Limits

• Preface viAcknowledgements viiiIntroduction 1I Linguistics, Semiotics, Textuality 231 The System and the Speaking Subject 242 Word, Dialogue and Novel 343 From Symbol to Sign 624 Semiotics: A Critical Science and/or a Critique of Science 745 Revolution in Poetic Language 89II Women, Psychoanalysis. Politics 1376 About Chinese Women 1387 Stabat Mater 1608 Women’s Time 1879 The True-Real 21410 Freud and Love: Treatment and Its Discontents 23811 Why the United States? 27212 A New Type of Intellectual: The Dissident 29213 Psychoanalysis and the Polis 301Index 321

Toril Moi is Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at Bergen University

"Toril Moi, with her usual exegetical lucidity, makes sense for us of the immensely difficult and varied aspects of Julia Kristeva's intellectual project, characterized by Moi as an attempt to 'think the unthinkable'." London Review of Books"Excellently edited and introduced by Toril Moi." City Limits

• Preface viAcknowledgements viiiIntroduction 1I Linguistics, Semiotics, Textuality 231 The System and the Speaking Subject 242 Word, Dialogue and Novel 343 From Symbol to Sign 624 Semiotics: A Critical Science and/or a Critique of Science 745 Revolution in Poetic Language 89II Women, Psychoanalysis. Politics 1376 About Chinese Women 1387 Stabat Mater 1608 Women’s Time 1879 The True-Real 21410 Freud and Love: Treatment and Its Discontents 23811 Why the United States? 27212 A New Type of Intellectual: The Dissident 29213 Psychoanalysis and the Polis 301Index 321