Julia Kristeva (1941) is a contemporary semiologist the works of whom are very influenced by her psychoanalytical background.
According to Kristeva, the study of signs should strive to become more than “an empirical science dealing with the modeling of signifying practices”.
Kristeva claims that in every moment of its work the semiotics thinks of its object, of its tools, and of the relations between them. And if we are to perceive it in this way semiotics, Kristeva says, is “an open form of research, a constant critique that addresses itself and offers its self-criticism”.
