Kristeva’s Subject-in-Process: From Structure to Semiotic Criticism

Author's Department

English & Comparative Literature Department

Document Type

Research Article

Publication Title

Proceedings of the 9th Congress of the IASS/AIS, Helsinki-Imatra

Publication Date

6-2007

Abstract

As presented in the early work, 'Revolution in Poetic Language,' Julia Kristeva’s 'subject-in-process' can be interpreted as a semiotic alternative to older conceptions of the philosophical subject.This discussion of Kristeva’s early work will attempt to demonstrate that new interpretations of Fregean logic and Freudian psychoanalysis radically displace the traditional subject. This act of displacement allows Kristeva to employ Hegelian dialectics to introduce a “textual” conception of meaning of experience. As a consequence, the Kristevan semiotexte offers a basis for both understanding and misunderstanding in which language mediates between semiotic meaning and cultural practices. The conclusion of the paper maintains that Kristeva's unique formulation of the semiotexte re-defines human subjectivity in relation to the existing world.

First Page

1074

Last Page

1081

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