Tales of Love (European Perspectives)

Julia Kristeva

The book attempts to tackle an extremely loaded subject without a proper philosophical-psychoanalytic basis. Part of the confusion rests with what is love? We tend to conflagate notions of love as a culture, calling anything for which we have passion as love... which is problematic.

One wonders, if in fact you can define love, which makes me wonder why should this book be written?

If anything, Kristeva seems to have trouble holding coherency of topic. Her bad habit of referencing everything in one sentence without much context is given wide berth, making it difficult at times to understand what she is trying to get at.