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Julia Kristeva: Desire in Language – A Semiotic Approach

"Julia Kristeva’s Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art (published in English translation in 1980) stands as a foundational text in twentieth-century literary theory, psychoanalysis, and semiotics. The book bridges structural linguistics, Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis, and political critique, offering an innovative framework for analyzing how subjectivity, desire, and meaning are constructed through language and aesthetic practices. Introduction to Kristeva’s Semiotic Project To understand Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach, one must first resolve a central theoretical ambiguity: what Kristeva means by "semiotic..."

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