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Acknowledgements |
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Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Texts |
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Prologue (p. 1) |
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Chapter 1. Revisiting with Kristeva: A Recuperative Reading, Across the Grain (p. 9) |
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Kristeva’s Method (p. 14) |
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My Approach (p. 20) |
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Kristeva’s Understanding of Women’s Stories in Biblical Narrative (p. 23) |
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Gathering Threads (p. 35) |
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Chapter 2. Kristeva’s Signifying Process: the Revolutionary Symbolic/Semiotic Double Movement (p. 39) |
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Kristeva’s Philosophy of Language (p. 39) |
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Semiotic Chora in a Heterogeneous Language Philosophy (p. 43) |
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The Symbolic with the Semiotic Element in the Signifying Process of Language (p. 49) |
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The Transgression and Infinite Possibilities of Poetic Language (p. 58) |
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The Murky Water of Metaphors of Non-Speech (p. 61) |
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Gathering Threads (p. 65) |
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Chapter 3. The Sacred Crossroads of Love: Between Tyranny and Delirium (p. 67) |
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To Experience Love and To Encounter the Sacred (p. 67) |
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The Feminine and the Sacred (p. 75) |
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Psychoanalysis and Love (p. 80) |
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Narcissism and Beyond (p. 84) |
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Rehabilitating Narcissism through a Biblical and Sacred Self-Love (p. 89) |
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The Shulamite at the Crossroads (p. 100) |
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Gathering Threads (p. 104) |
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Chapter 4. Sovereignty of/for the Subject-In-Process/On-Trial (p. 107) |
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Freud and the Id, the Ego, and the Super-ego (p. 110) |
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Lacan and the Real, the Imaginary, and the Symbolic (p. 118) |
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Lacan’s Imaginary and Kristeva’s Imaginary Discourse (p. 125) |
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The Role of Abjection in the Be[com]ing of a Subject (p. 129) |
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Gathering Threads (p. 140) |
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Chapter 5. The Story of Bathsheba and David: Beauty Objectified and the Abjection of the Objectifier (p. 143) |
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The Beginning of the Story in the Narrative (p. 145) |
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A Subject Position with a Relational Identity (p. 148) |
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The Objectification of a Subject (p. 150) |
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Lexicons of Meanings (p. 155) |
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The Conspiracy to Conceal the Crime (p. 166) |
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The Murder of Uriah (p. 170) |
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Judgement and Punishment (p. 172) |
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Abject Grief and Comfort (p. 176) |
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Gathering Threads (p. 182) |
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Chapter 6. An Ethical Witness to The Unethical: Toward An Herethics of Love (p. 185) |
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Identities in Crisis and the Sexualized Female Body (p. 187) |
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The Setting (p. 190) |
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Amnon and the Sexualized Female Body of Tamar (p. 191) |
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Silencing Tamar, the Shattering of a Violated Subject (p. 193) |
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Consequences (p. 197) |
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Absalom and His Crime of War Committed on Ten Sexualized Female Bodies (p. 199) |
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Consequences (p. 202) |
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David and the Virgin Abishag, the Impotence of Not Knowing (p. 204) |
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Adonijah’s Conspiracy in the Struggle for David’s Throne (p. 204) |
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Breaking Bathsheba’s Silence (p. 205) |
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Creating a Speaking Subject (p. 207) |
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Power and Periphery (p. 209) |
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The Politics of the Virgin Female Body (p. 210) |
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The ‘Who’ of Bathsheba as a Subject (p. 214) |
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Gathering Threads (p. 215) |
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Epilogue: Into the Future: a Her(ethics) of Love Between Delirium and Tyranny (p. 219) |
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An Oscillation Between Rejection and Identification, Between Delirium and Tyranny (p. 220) |
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Biblical Interpretation and Identity Formation (p. 224) |
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Struggles for Subjects-In-Process/On-Trial (p. 234) |
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Herethics for Sovereign Subjects-In Process/On-Trial (p. 242) |
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Kristeva’s Revolution as Sacred Transformation (p. 245) |
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Bibliography (p. 252) |
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Works by and about Kristeva (p. 252) |
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Secondary Works (p. 254) |
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Other Works of Influence (p. 257) |