This work, Julia Kristeva, eruditionally addresses some fundamental concepts for the understanding of various philosophical, psychoanalytic and even literary theories that have animated the field of intellectual (especially French) production during the second half of the 20th century. To do this, he focuses on notions such as “abjection”, “subject” and “object”, “horror”, “joy”, “repression”, among many others and his extensive intellectual journey allows him, in addition to appealing canonical authors of clinical psychoanalysis, to show how some literary works could help to complexize and think otherwise all these issues. Among the authors that Kristeva reads and refers to with fruition are Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Antonin Artaud, Marcel Proust, Jorge Luis Borges, James Joyce and Fyodor Dostoevsky, among many others.
Strange state in which we immerse the reading of Céline. Its true miracle is the effect of reading—fascinating, mysterious, intimately nocturnal and liberating of an uncompromising laugh, but nevertheless an accomplice, beyond the contents of the novels, the style of writing, the author’s biography, or his unsustainable (fascist and anti-Semitic) political positions. How, where, why does this Celinian universe question us so vigorously almost twenty years after its death, about half a century after the publication of the Journey at the end of the night? Julia Kristeva