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Julia Kristeva Quotes on Mind

Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, and psychoanalyst whose work has shaped semiotics, feminist theory, and contemporary continental philosophy. This page collects quotes attributed to Julia Kristeva on the topic of mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Julia Kristeva:

    “Strangely, the foreigner lives within us: he is the hidden face of our identity.”

  • Attributed to Julia Kristeva:

    “The abject is what the symbolic order must expel in order to constitute itself.”

  • Attributed to Julia Kristeva:

    “Poetic language is the language of the body returning to the symbolic.”

  • Attributed to Julia Kristeva:

    “The semiotic is older than the symbolic and never ceases to disturb it.”