Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-285) and index
1. Julia Kristeva in Person: France-Culture broadcast -- 2. Intellectual Roots / Perry Meisel -- 3. A Conversation with Julia Kristeva / Ina Lipkowitz and Andrea Loselle -- 4. Cultural Strangeness and the Subject in Crisis / Suzanne Clark and Kathleen Hulley -- 5. The Ethics and Practice of Love / Francoise Collin -- 6. Black Sun: Melancholia and Creation / Dominique Grisoni -- 7. On New Maladies of the Soul / Catherine Francblin -- 8. Woman Is Never What We Say: Psych et Po group, French Women's Liberation Movement -- 9. "unes femmes": The Woman Effect / Eliane Boucquey -- 10. Feminism and Psychoanalysis / Elaine Hoffman Baruch -- 11. Women and Literary Institutions / Alice Jardine and Anne Menke -- 12. Memories of Sofia: Le Nouvel observateur essay -- 13. America: A Society on the Move / Catherine Francblin -- 14. Psychoanalysis and Politics / Edith Kurzweil -- 15. Interview: The Old Man and the Wolves / Bernard Sichere