Abjection is above all ambiguity. Because, while releasing a hold, it does not radically cut off the subject from what threatens it --- on the contra…

- Julia Kristeva

The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist.

- Julia Kristeva

Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components – that is doubtless a way to curb mourning.

- Julia Kristeva

Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt, the…

- Julia Kristeva

That faith be analyzable does not necessarily imply a method for getting by without it. . . .

- Julia Kristeva

Significance is inherent in the human body.

- Julia Kristeva

Love is the time and space where "I" give myself the right to be extraordinary.

- Julia Kristeva

When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning, of colors, of…

- Julia Kristeva