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- adjective Of or relating to Julia Kristeva (born 1941),
Bulgarian -French philosopher andcritic .
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Examples
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Funny--I was in a similar phase during Diana's wedding and sobbed nonethelesss and my academic inclination was more Lacanian, Kristevan and Freudian.
The Princess, The Cowboy and The Narrative of Footprints 2008
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In making the case I made in my comment to Dodie the other day, I think I wanted to suggest that abjection in these works is not only about the Kristevan notion of the powers of horror but also about the powers of the awful.
David's comment Dodie Bellamy 2008
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The hints of physicality and process suggested by the present participle may be a Kristevan example of "poetic language," in which this word "bleeding" implies the horrifying disruptiveness of "female" materiality.
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Frankenstein's preconscious dream, though it reveals less of these mixtures than the creature does, at least shows the abjection of deep Kristevan levels of somatic memory as the fundamental throwing-off-and-under that makes all of the other abjections possible in one terrifying and sympathetic creation.
Hogle, Introduction, Frankenstein's Dream, Praxis Series, Romantic Circles 2003
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Schelling ultimately flinches from the most radical implications of his own anthropomorphisms, so that the alternative genealogy of desire to which I have so briefly referred here functions like a Kristevan genotext within the phenotext of the Freedom essay.
Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy 2000
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Funny – I was in a similar phase during Diana’s wedding and sobbed nonethelesss (and my academic inclination was more Lacanian, Kristevan and Freudian).
The Princess, The Cowboy and The Narrative of Footprints | Her Bad Mother 2008
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