Catherine Cl�ment is a prolific essayist and novelist. Her works in English include Opera, Or the Undoing of Women; The Newly Born Woman(with H�l�ne Cixous); The Weary Sons of Freud;and The Lives and Legends of Jacques Lacan.Julia Kristeva, psychoanalyst and professor of linguistics at the University of Paris, is the author of many acclaimed books including Time and Sense, Strangers to Ourselves, The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt,and New Maladies of the Soul.