Tales of Love

Julia Kristeva (author), Leon S. Roudiez (translator)

Paperback Published on: 04/03/2025; Language: English, French (Original language of a translated text)

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Synopsis

Julia Kristeva pursues her exploration of the core emotions of the human psyche through a series of philosophical and literary texts. She focuses on the role of narcissism and idealization in the formation of a love object, accounting for the role of the death drive by coining the term “love/hate.” Tales of Love offers illuminating psychoanalytic readings of Thomas Aquinas, courtly romances, Romeo and Juliet, Baudelaire, Stendhal, and Bataille, among others.