In the Beginning Was Love: Psychoanalysis and Faith (European Perspectives: a Series in Social Thought & Cultural Ctiticism)

by Julia Kristeva, Arthur Goldhammer

Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Jacket is slightly sunned, and edges are a little creased. Previous owner's dedication penned to FEP. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW

Genres: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Nonfiction, Theory

63 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII and author of many acclaimed works. Her Columbia University Press books include Hatred and Forgiveness (2012); The Severed Head: Capital Visions (2014); and, with Philippe Sollers, Marriage as a Fine Art (2016).

Reviews

[amin ghazaei]

این کتاب برای نشر به گل آذین سپرده شده فعلا در این مرحله است.
این کتاب به ارتباط روان کاوی و ایمان می پردازد . در واقع کریستوا بر جنبه گفتاری و انتقال عاشقانه در فرآیند درمان تاکید بیشتری می کند تا جنبه علمی روان کاوی.

[Andrés Gordillo López]

Psicoánalisis y emancipación: llegar a ser quién eres, llegar a ser ese.

[Castles · Rating 4 out of 5]

a highly academic, brilliant debate about faith, religion, psychology, and love. I can’t say I understood everything but the flow of the ideas in this short book was articulated and intensely interesting.

I think I read the book before I had a Goodreads account (but I’m not sure), and it’s interesting, I just finished st. Augustinus confessions, and encountered him again here in this book. funny how books find you at the right time and how they link to each other, speaking of Kristeva's intertextuality.

it’s probably worth reading more than one time, the sense of style is very french semiotician school (naturally). Kristeva is one of the most interesting psychoanalysts in this current era who academically deals with semiotics as well, and if that’s your interest, this book is recommended.

[Keely Shinners · Rating 4 out of 5]

TL;DR: Psychic and physical suffering irrigates your life. What to do? As a speaking being, open up to and repose in the other.

'All plenitude turns out to be inscribed upon a "void" which is simply what remains when the overabundance of meaning, desire, violence, and anguish is drained by means of language.'

'Toward the end of therapy there is a moment of paranoia: "I am alone, hence I am the creator." Tragically, some analysands get no further than this. But the real end of analysis, if indeed the process ever ends, is more likely that which comes after the period of disillusionment, when a certain playfulness of spirit returns: "I am someone else, I cannot say who. There are things that cannot be said, and I am entitled to play around with them so that I can understand them better." Perversion is thus tamed, if you will. I am indeed alone, like no other person. Knowing this, I can also play for real, for keeps, at forming bonds: creating communities, helping others, loving, losing.'

'Analytic discourse speaks of a humanity that is willing to lose in order to know itself as pure loss and thus pay its debts to the Almighty; it aims for tenuous, temporary ties and relationships. Analysis is a means of transition from trust to separation. I give my heart, then I reclaim it in order to risk it once more, ad infinitum. I am always prepared to be pushed off center without tragedy and with sufficient pleasure that I am ready afterward to renew relations with others.'

'Who are we? Grownups who attempt to rely on our own strengths, made available by the ability of language to reach even the most inaccessible traces of instinct and the most troubling representations of desire.'

[Ronaldo]

"The analyst today is in a position different from that of Freud. He is less scrupulously a rationalist, or perhaps one should say less guilty in the face of rationalism and still less optimistic about the beneficial powers of reason"

Very focused and penetrable. Insightful exploration of the role of the analyst, the nature of what he means to be alone in an Abrahamic belief system, along with other thing such as examining what the immaculate conception means in psychoanalysis


Kristeva also explores the nature of her own lack of belief and briefly touches on nihilism and what it means to be 'unanalyzable'

Very good read.

[Rosa, Leggo e Scrivo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quello che più mi ha lasciata spiazzata è poi semplicemente una parola, "analizzante", quindi l'analista osserva (e partecipa del) discorso (amoroso) attuato dal "paziente" che però allora non è solo tale. Il senso è imparare ad accettare la separazione, la perdita, vivere anche senza il compromesso della illusioni (quale illusione ha più potere della fede?) o almeno comprenderne i limiti.
Cioè, se ho davvero ben capito, io che ne so.

[شایسته]

من ترجمه‌ مهرداد پارسا از انتشارات شوندو خوندم.

[benedetta · Rating 4 out of 5]

3 e mezzo. Discorso più legato alla psicoanalisi che alla fede.

[Miguel Fernandez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really great, I only wish she went deeper in this lecture series

[Jonathan Widell · Rating 3 out of 5]

challenges freud's dismissal of religion as an illusion and lacan's dismissal of catholics as unanalyzable. instead of exploring new territory Kristeva draws on her own experience as an analyst