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Alice Jardine, "At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

New Books in Psychoanalysis

CHAPTER

The Story of a Dissident Journalist

Am, she started out as a journalist. She wrote some things that put her family at some risk. Her father took her to a monastery and they sort of hid out because he was afraid they were going to be sent away to a camp. Nothing happened to them. I suggest that this may have been because she was not particularly political in the public sphere, except for this camouflaged writing. And she was getting becoming quite well known as a a translator. For example, she took the cosmo cosmonots around. Ye, yes, so this, this time period when she was writing is really, really important to understand. It's difficult for us to imagine what it would have been

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