Teresa, My Love

Abbreviations and ChronologyPart 1: The Nothingness of All Things1. Present by Default2. Mystical Seduction3. Dreaming, Music, Ocean4. Homo ViatorPart 2: Understanding Through Fiction5. Prayer, Writing, Politics6. How to Write Sensible Experience, or, of Water as the Fiction of Touch7. The Imaginary of an Unfindable Sense Curled Into a God Findable in MePart 3: The Wanderer8. Everything So Constrained Me9. Her Lovesickness10. The Ideal Father and the HostPart 4: Extreme Letters, Extremes of Being11. Bombs and Ramparts12. " Cristo como hombre"13. Image, Vision, and Rapture14. "The soul isn't in possession of its senses, but it rejoices"15. A Clinical Lucidity16. The Minx and the Sage17. Better to Hide...?18. "... Or 'to do what lies within my power' "?19. From Hell to FoundationPart 5: From Ecstasy to Action20. The Great Tide21. Saint Joseph, the Virgin Mary, and His Majesty22. The Maternal Vocation23. Constituting Time24. Tutti a cavalloPart 6: Foundation-Persecution25. The Mystic and the Jester26. A Father Is Beaten to Death27. A Runaway Girl28. "Give me trials, Lord; give me persecutions"29. "With the ears of the soul"Part 7: Dialogues from Beyond the Grave30. Act I. Her Women31. Act II. Her Eliseus32. Act III: Her "Little Seneca"33. Act IV. The Analyst's FarewellPart 8: Postscript34. Letter to Denis Diderot on the Infinitesimal Subversion of a NunNotesSources

Julia Kristeva, geb. in Bulgarien, seit 1966 in Frankreich lebend, gehört zu den renommiertesten Sprachwissenschaftlerinnen und Psychoanalytikerinnen sowie kritischen intellektuellen Frankreichs. 2004 erhielt sie den norwegischen Holberg-Preis, 2006 den Hannah-Arendt-Preis für politisches Denken; zahlreiche Ehrendoktorwürden, Auszeichnungen und Preise. Sie ist Professorin am Institut Universitaire de France und schrieb einflussreiche Bücher über Psychoanalyse, Literatur und Sprache.