Emma M. Brodeur (Ph.D. Syracuse University) teaches part-time in the Department of Religion at Syracuse University. Her research and teaching inhabit the intersections of religion, philosophy, and psychoanalysis with a focus on modern Jewish thought and culture. She is currently writing a book on a theory of modern Jewishness on the basis of dream-work in Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis.
Kristeva’s psychoanalytic approach and practice shed light on the unconscious, affective, and bodily formation(s) of religious and political discourses and systems.