Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction: Losing our Heads 1
5. 1. Kristeva and Benjamin: Melancholy and the Allegorical Imagination 21
6. 2. Kenotic Art: Negativity, Iconoclasm, Inscription 53
7. 3. To Be and Remain Foreign: Tarrying with L’Inquiétante Étrangeté Alongside Arendt and Kafka 87
8. 4. Sublimating Maman : Experience, Time, and the Re-erotization of Existence in Kristeva’s Reading of Marcel Proust 121
9. 5. The “Orestes Complex”: Thinking Hatred, Forgiveness, Greek Tragedy, and the Cinema of the “Thought Specular” with Hegel, Freud, and Klein 153
10. Conclusion: Forging a Head 183
11. Notes 191
12. Bibliography 225
13. Index 233
14. Backmatter 247