Introduction: Kristeva's Revolutions -- pt. 1. Kristeva's Trajectory: In Her Own Words -- "My Memory's Hyperbole" (1984), from New York literary forum -- pt. 2. The Subject in Signifying Practice -- Revolution in Poetic Language (1974) -- Prolegomenon -- The Semiotic and the symbolic -- Negativity: rejection -- Desire in Language (1980) -- From one identity to an other (1975) -- Time and Sense (1994) -- Is sensation a form of language? (abridged) -- Freudian time -- pt. 3. Psychoanalysis of Love: A Counterdepressant -- Tales of Love (1987) -- Freud and love: treatment and its discontents (abridged) -- Throes of love: the field of the metaphor (abridged) -- Extraterrestrials suffering for want of love -- Black Sun (1989) -- Psychoanalysis--a counterdepressant -- New Maladies of the Soul (1993) -- The clinic: the soul and the image (abridged) -- In times like these, who needs psychoanalysts? -- pt. 4. Individual and National Identity -- Powers of Horror (1980) -- Approaching abjection (abridged) -- From filth to defilement (abridged) -- Strangers to Ourselves (1989) -- Toccata and Fugue for the foreigner -- Might not universality be ... our own foreignness? (abridged) -- In practice ... -- pt. 5. Maternity, Feminism, and Female Sexuality -- Desire in Language (1980) -- The maternal body (1975), from "motherhood according to Bellini" -- Tales of Love (1987) -- Stabat Mater (1976) -- Julia Kristeva in Conversation with Rosalind Coward (1984) -- New Maladies of the Soul -- Women's time (1977) -- Interview with Elaine Hoffman Baruch on feminism in the United States and France (1980) -- Black Sun (1989) -- Illustrations of feminine depression -- Hannah Arendt (1999) -- Female genius: general introduction -- pt. 6. Revolt and Imagination -- The Sense of Non-sense of Revolt (1996) -- What revolt today? -- Intimate Revolt (1998) -- The future of revolt -- Revolt today -- Elements for research.