Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art
Kristeva changes the place of things: she always destroys thelatest preconception,the one we thought we could be comforted by, the one of which we could be proud; what she displaces in the illusion that it has all been said already, that is, she removes the pressure of the signified - in a word, stupidity; what she subverts is authority - that of monological science, of filiation.  --Roland BarthesKristeva changes the place of things: she always destroys thelatest preconception,the one we thought we could be comforted by, the one of which we could be proud; what she displaces is the illusion that it has all been said already, that is, she removes the pressure of the signified­­in a word, stupidity; what she subverts is authority­­that of monological science, of filiation. --ReviewKristeva changes the place of things: she always destroys thelatest preconception,the one we thought we could be comforted by, the one of which we could be proud; what she displaces in the illusion that it has all been said already, that is, she removes the pressure of the signifiedin a word, stupidity; what she subverts is authoritythat of monological science, of filiation.  --Roland Barthes