Julia Kristeva – On Linguistics

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1. Word choices are dictated by the blissful sound of language. We can chose from a lot of vocabulary. But the one that is most blissful wins out.

2. kristeva is actually one of the more substantive post-structuralists i've encountered. as concerns the philistine comments–i fail to see why anything she's saying should be considered (a) difficult or (b) falsely erudite. the terminology used in post-structuralist writing is there *so that* you can follow what it's saying. philosophical language, despite what analytics will say, demands nuance; the flow of this kind of thought is necessarily complex–the content is in the form.

3. furthermore, her thoughts on the split subject are not at all without substance, and i think she does a better job than lacan at explaining it. (although both are anticipated by sartre some 40 years prior.) subject positions are spaces we occupy that are opened by objects; therefore when we occupy those positions we are not a simple linguistic 'whole,' a transcendental ego, a unified subject, but a split subject given its place, name, identity, by the object. it's a legitimate thought.

4. @eulex10 No. Kristeva is approaching psychoanalysis utilizing semiotical methods that were considered inadequate for explaining syntax after the 1950s . To make it more clear , semiotics have become an explanatory branch of their own , which can shed light to linguistics but not fully explain them (Chomsky's theories do a better job) .
   However , one shouldn't criticize a branch for not being able to account for something it does not intend to.

5. @eulex10 Nope , I just have innate curiosity with linguistic inclinations 🙂 .

6. A real piece of incomprehensible crap

7. looking back on what i wrote a year ago, that i'd quite forgotton except for your potty gob comments, It is pretty good though isn't it? Thanks for reminding me. You should take note and learn instead of succombing to infantile convulsions, a nasty, anti social habit that will almost certainly condemn you to failure and despondancy should you reach maturity.

8. Youre the reason why continental philosophy is nothing but utter nonsense nowadays: It doesnt matters if what you say is true or false as long as it sounds good.

9. is there anyone who could tell me if this is a documentary? And if it is so who made it, where and when? thankx

10. Here's the info on the film —

    Julia Kristeva; 1941-; Jonathan Ree; 1948-. Wall to Wall Television. Channel Four (Great Britain) Films for the Humanities (Firm)
    Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences 1998.

11. Thankx a lot 😀

12. eexcellent linguoistics and i learn the language
    piano and all too

13. Kristeva is a fraud, knows nothing about linguistics, what she uttered is pure nonsense.

14. Kristeva's early work on a theory of poetic language was an out and out fraud. She used complex and wholly unrelated mathematics she did not comprehend, nor did she even attempt to explain why those mathematical theorems were even relevant to her work. The important thing was that it sounded very deep, scientific and impressive. A classic con job. This woman should have been thrown out of Academia then and there.

15. You don't know what you're talking about. She is not a scientist, and she never said she was. She is an expert in literary language and cultural theory, within which she has been highly creative from a psychoanalytic perspective. She is the only one of the "French" cultural theorists who isn't a monstrously arrogant twat (Derrida, Lacan), or a mad lesbian (Cixous, Irigaray), and who cares about the suffering of people as people instead of reducing humanity to linguistic expressions

16. 2:21 — She says "Bebe talk"

17. Could someone please let me know when/where and with whom this interview took place? Thank you!!

18. This woman is GODDAMN BORING. I swear, I wanna punch her in the face. I mean, I would never actually do it but having to listen to her and not making her suffer is killing me.

19. Maybe the translator is at fault here.

20. Stimulating.

21. "Words with a "k" are funny." Neil Simon.

22. Kristeva is one of the few post-structuralists whose writing is intelligible, relatively jargon-free, and truly innovative. Her work is not always easy to understand because of her idiomatic use of certain terms, such as "the semiotic," or "poetic language," but once one gets past that barrier she is a joy to read. Her greatest contribution, for me, is her opening up to our awareness of the rich possibilities of the musical dimension of language and the manner in which this dimension can subvert those traditional modes of thinking and expression that have become oppressive.

23. please put the whole interview

24. To me it is not so obvious how linguistics presupposes the subject / object split in a way that is worth mentioning. But of course, the less worth mentioning it is that you point out, the smarter you sound, especially if you are gesturing with your hands like her.

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