What is there to lose?
Adam Phillips, 24 May 1990
Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia
by Julia Kristeva, translated by Leon Roudiez.
Columbia, 300 pp., $33.50, October 1989,0 231 06706 2 Show More
by Julia Kristeva, translated by Leon Roudiez.
Columbia, 300 pp., $33.50, October 1989,
Surviving trauma: Loss, Literature and Psychoanalysis
by David Aberbach.
Yale, 192 pp., £16.95, February 1990,0 300 04557 3 Show More
by David Aberbach.
Yale, 192 pp., £16.95, February 1990,
“... named sexual desire ensures securing the subject to the other, and consequently, to meaning.’ Leon Roudiez, who has produced a mostly fluent version of a difficult text, translates arrimage as ‘secures’. The French term, which is nautical in origin, also means ‘to stow’. It is through desire, in language, Kristeva is saying, that the ... ”
