Julia Kristeva Quotes
Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, and psychoanalyst whose work has shaped semiotics, feminist theory, and contemporary continental philosophy. Revolution in Poetic Language introduced her distinction between the symbolic and the semiotic dimensions of language, in which a pre-Oedipal rhythmic and bodily semiotic continually disturbs the symbolic order of meaning. The quotes below are attributed to Julia Kristeva, organized by topic.
Julia Kristeva on Knowledge
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“Revolution in Poetic Language (1984), p. 17”
The text is a practice that could be compared to political revolution: the one brings about in the subject what the other introduces into society.
Julia Kristeva on Love
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Attributed to Julia Kristeva:
“To love is already to leave oneself.”
Julia Kristeva on Mind
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Attributed to Julia Kristeva:
“Strangely, the foreigner lives within us: he is the hidden face of our identity.”
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Attributed to Julia Kristeva:
“The abject is what the symbolic order must expel in order to constitute itself.”
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Attributed to Julia Kristeva:
“Poetic language is the language of the body returning to the symbolic.”
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Attributed to Julia Kristeva:
“The semiotic is older than the symbolic and never ceases to disturb it.”
Julia Kristeva on Politics
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“The text is a practice that could be compared to political revolution: the one brings about in the subject what the other introduces into society.”
Revolution in Poetic Language (1984), p. 17