In the Beginning Was Love: Psychoanalysis and Faith (European Perspectives)

In the Beginning Was Love Psychoanalysis and Faith

by Julia Kristeva translated by

Arthur Goldhammer

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Q;> Columbia University Press New York,

1987

Columbia University Press New York Guildford. Surrey Copyright © 1987 Columbia University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America

Ubrary of Coqress Cataloglng-ln-PubUcation Data Kristeva. Julia. 1941In the beginning was love. (European perspective series) Translation of: Au commencement etait I'amour. Includes index. I. Psychoanalysis. 2. Psychoanalysis and philosophy. I. Title. II. Series. BF I 75.4.R44K7513 1987 150.19'5 87-24922 ISBN 0-231-06516-7

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Contents

Foreword, by Otto F. Kernberg, M.D. Preface

ix xiii

Language and Subject in Psychoanalysis The unshakable Illusion

II

Credence