Teresa, My Love

Teresa, My Love is written with force, drive, and a verbal agility that carries the reader off and turns the book into a page-turner. – Verena Conley, Harvard UniversityJulia Kristeva’s psychoanalytic investigation of love leads her to the extraordinary case of Teresa of Avila, and to the ‘inoperable’ rapport of desire and the need to believe. Kristeva remains faithful to psychoanalysis and to non-belief while offering this thoroughly engaging ‘imagined life’ of Saint Teresa. It is of the greatest pertinence in a world that seems to have revived the need to believe in aggressive forms. – Peter Brooks, Princeton UniversityClearly documents the undeniable literary talent of author Julia Kristeva… a compelling and entertaining read that lingers in the mind long after the novel itself is finished… an extraordinary literary accomplishment * Midwest Book review *

Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 “for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature.”