Julia Kristeva is well known for her influential contributions to an unusually wide variety of scholarly fields, including philosophy, linguistics, semiotics, biography, literary criticism, cultural criticism, feminism, and psychoanalysis

Kristeva is the author of over 30 books

Outside of academia, Kristeva is known also as a novelist who authored The Old Man and the Wolves (English translation,1994), Murder in Byzantium (English translation, 2006), Possessions (English translation, 1998), and The Enchanted Clock (English translation, 2018)

Kristeva is still an active scholar and sought-after speaker: she gave a key address in London in July 2019 at the conference held by the International Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytical Studies Organization and another in Oslo in October 2018 at the Cultural Crossings of Care Conference

This volume contains the first and only translation of Kristeva's acclaimed autobiography, originally published in French in 2016

This volume also contains original replies to the critical and expository essays that were solicited specifically for this book