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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Progress in spirit

Freud and Kristeva on the uncanny

Vanessa Rumble

pp. 168-195

Abstract

In the penultimate chapter ofStrangers to Ourselves(1989), Julia Kristeva distills the “political and ethical impact of the Freudian breakthrough.”¹ Surfacing at the close of an invigorating cultural (and classically Kristevan) romp through political, literary, and philosophical history, carrying us from dawning awareness of sexual difference (“the first foreigners: women”) to Jewish, Greek, and Roman representations of autochthony and otherness, and finally to Enlightenment thinking on universalism, her remarks on the uncanny in Freud signal our entry into a domain decisively shaped by Kristeva herself: that of politics and psychoanalysis.

Publication details

Published in:

Kearney Richard, Semonovitch Kascha (2011) Phenomenologies of the stranger: Between hostility and hospitality. New York, Fordham University Press.

Pages: 168-195

Full citation:

Rumble Vanessa (2011) „Progress in spirit: Freud and Kristeva on the uncanny“, In: R. Kearney & K. Semonovitch (eds.), Phenomenologies of the stranger, New York, Fordham University Press, 168–195.