LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Kristeva rejects the idea that neuroses provide insight into the unconscious.
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Kristeva suggests that women are not subject to traditional fetishes.
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Kristeva offers a more central place for women’s issues within psychological development.
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All of the above answers are correct.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Kristeva proposes that there is a maternal regulation or law which prefigures the paternal law which Freudian psychoanalysts have maintained is necessary for signification (see Powers of Horror and Tales of Love). The regulation or grammar and laws of language, then, are already operating on the level of matter.
Detailed explanation-2: -Among her many achievements, Kristeva has been recognized as a leader in feminist theory. She has written extensively about women’s bodies, particularly in relation to motherhood, and the role they play as a primal source of rhythm, tone and movement for every human being before it comes into the real world.
Detailed explanation-3: -Julia Kristeva, (born June 24, 1941, Sliven, Bulg.), Bulgarian-born French psychoanalyst, critic, novelist, and educator, best known for her writings in structuralist linguistics, psychoanalysis, semiotics, and philosophical feminism.