- Lived:
- Born June 24, 1941, Sliven, Bulgaria · Paris since 1965
- Tradition:
- French post-structuralism and psychoanalysis; linguistics, feminism, and the theory of the subject
- The Big Idea:
- Beneath the orderly grammar of language runs a current of rhythm and drive that never stops disturbing it — and beneath the orderly self runs a stranger who never stops disturbing us.
- In their words:
- The abject is "what disturbs identity, system, order."
- If you remember one thing:
- The self is never a finished thing. It is a process, held together by language and haunted by everything it had to push away — including the foreigner inside.