Psychoanalytic theory

Julia Kristeva Denies Being an Agent of the Bulgarian Secret Services

The philosopher Julia Kristeva, who has lived in France since 1966, denied being a member of the Bulgarian intelligence services at the time of communism. She did so in a statement to the French weekly L'Obs, which claims to have found her secret agent form, the France press reported.

The madman of the Middle East

?He [the madman] ? explained the extremity of his actions as president ? as necessary to achieve ?subjective immunity? against foreign plots and influences.

?[His] ideological rationalization for a lifelong pattern [is] all actions are justified if they are in the service of furthering [his] needs and ambitions.